On May 8, 2014, at 8:20 AM, David Brownlee <abs at absd.org> wrote:
On 7 May 2014 20:27, Peterson, Roe (LAI) <roe at
liveblockauctions.com> wrote:
Has anyone seen a port of ssh/sshd for 2.11BSD?
I'm just a bit uncomfortable using telnet on my pdp11/83.
I'd be surprised if the system had enough memory and cpu to run the
necessary encryption. ssh is painful enough on a sparc sun4c box. It
*might* get away with ssh v1.
The most expensive operation is the asymmetric ciphers around the connection establishment
? Diffie-Hellman and (if used) RSA. After that you have the block cipher, which will be
slow but should be tolerable. I don?t think SSH V1 vs. V2 makes any difference here. It
would be interesting to try AES, which was designed to be efficient in software (unlike
DES which was designed not to be and succeeded).
paul