lutz,
your advice worked!!! after creating an entropy device file, recompiling
ssh and pointing it to that file, it immediately sped things up!! i went
from a connection time of 45 seconds to, under 2! a significant
improvement. i guess ssh was having to generate a random number everytime i
ran it, and that was what caused the slowdown. anyway, i appreciate your
advice, now we can get rid of trusted hosts at work. Thanks!
Jason
>
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:44:55PM -0600, Jason Holland wrote:
> > guys,
> > i know that there is no support for /dev/random or
> /dev/urandom in hp-ux.
> > could this be the cause of a slowdown in key generation? is
> there any way
> > around this, just so i can elminate it??? i'm still fishing
> for answers to
> > my slow connection problems. thanks for the help!
>
> I remember having answered on this question yesterday: use the
> EGD interface.
> I have written PRNGD (available from my homepage, see my .signature) and
> have compiled in the path to the communication socket into OpenSSH.
> Whenever entropy is needed, PRNGD will supply it immediately.
>
> Best regards,
> Lutz
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> BTU Cottbus http://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/personen/jaenicke/
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