Bug#110094: ssh-keygen takes 30mins to generate keys on fast m68k. Status indicator?
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 02:21:05PM +0300, Petri Koistinen wrote:
> Back to business: ssh-keygen takes about 30 minutes to generate new
> keys on fast MC68060 Amiga when it's being installed first time. This
> is quite a long time, especially as there is no indication that this
> operation will take so long. I would like to suggest that either
> package or ssh-keygen program had some sort of warning or status
> indicator that would explain that this operation will take some time
> and possibly how much longer still.
I added a "this may take some time" warning to the postinst script in
version 1:3.5p1-4. However, a status indicator would still be nice.
OpenSSL provides a facility for this in its key generation functions,
but OpenSSH doesn't currently use them.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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