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[Markus Friedl]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 04:24:16PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:
> 
> > - Key generation is quicker (DSA parameter generation is slow and 
> > computationally intensive)
> > 
> > - Verification of signatures (and thus authentication) can be an order 
> > of magnitude faster with RSA. Signing is a little slower.
> 
> FWIW, I have SSH2/RSA up and running on two OpenBSD boxes, and it
> appears to work fine.
> 
> Unfortunately, SSH2 connection setup is still unusably slow on
> slower machines.  For some reason I always tend to have some old
> machines at hand.  One of my current toys is a Cyrix 486DX2-66 box
> that may yet end up as a console server.  Starting up an SSH2
> connection to that machine takes forever.  From "ssh -v", the
> computationally intensive part is here:

just remove /etc/primes and try again...