Hey, that’s great. Thanks.
Will try soon.

Did you do other preliminary tests ?
Anything out of ordinary ?

Will link you from the other thread.

pshipkov wrote on 2023-05-21, 23:24:

Did you do other preliminary tests ?
Anything out of ordinary ?

I'm actually booted into (old) Linux on it right now as I wanted to play with SSH with modern cryptography (all the djb stuff ed25519/curve25519/chacha20/poly1305) on such an old CPU. It actually works pretty well; the initial SSH connection does take about 50 seconds using public key authentication though.

Ok, good to hear.
But now i am curious - what's with the modern cryptography on a 386, from all other possible activities ? : P

pshipkov wrote on 2023-05-22, 01:18:

Ok, good to hear.
But now i am curious - what's with the modern cryptography on a 386, from all other possible activities ? : P

I was just wondering whether it would work to backport a current ssh rather than have to un-harden the ssh client (or server) from a modern machine, how slow it would be, and I was curious about which part of the SSH implementation is the bottleneck. It was the chacha20 inner loop as well as the sha256 compression function. And I'm not and was not much of a gamer so I don't have the extensive game library that some have here 😀

Not into games ?
A dangerous statement.

Kidding aside - i relate to what you said.
Recognized early that making is more rewarding than consuming, so the playing part was short.