Slow connection performance with ssh2

[Damien Miller]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:

> It would be intersting to benchmark SSH Corp and vshell on slow boxes to
> see where we stand, but I suspect they will be the same or we will be
> slightly faster. (We do have the best crypto people in OpenBSD, right
> Theo? =)

We will be slower than some other implementations because we support
draft-ietf-secsh-dh-group-exchange-01.txt, which requires a fair bit 
of computation.

You can trade connect speed for security by disabling this - delete
or rename $sysconfdir/{primes,moduli}

Using RSA keys for SSH2 authentication helps too.

-d

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