Call for testing: OpenSSH-6.5

[Darren Tucker]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Tom G. Christensen <tgc at jupiterrise.com> wrote:
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> Could there be some timing/performance issue causing those failures?

It's possible.  We try to not make the tests timing-sensitive where
possible but some of them are inherently racy.

The slowest machine I've run the tests on is either a 166MHz powerpc
or a 170 MHz sparc.  On the sparcs at least, building openssl with gcc
-mv8 or better makes a huge difference because it enables the hardware
multiply, and DH does a lot of multiplies.

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