New snapshot

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Fri Nov 17 06:14:24 EST 2000


Markus Friedl <markus.friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

> > Unfortunately, SSH2 connection setup is still unusably slow on
> > slower machines. [...]
> 
> just remove /etc/primes and try again...

What is this file?  It's not documented in sshd(8)--nor OpenBSD's
man pages in general.

Anyway, I did, and the situation improved.  From "ssh -v" I gather
that whatever this Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange exchanges is down
from 2048 to 1024 bits, resulting in a connection setup time of
25+ seconds.  (Still a pain for practical use, of course.  Protocol 1
takes about five seconds.)

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de





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