alt Hacker NewsI think GP is confused why the ftp command also handles http(s) :)
I hate to imagine what a 780 running NetBSD would be like, too.
I tried netbooting NetBSD on my MicroVAX 3400, which is about 2.5x the performance of the 780. It did, literally, take 6+ hours to slog through making RSA keys.
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kevin_thibedeau • today at 12:59 AM
Elliptic curve key gen is much faster on slow hardware. You're waiting around on primality tests that aren't necessary with modern keys.
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> I think GP is confused why the ftp command also handles http(s) :)
Exactly - I even suspected for a second that `ftp` on NetBSD is something else entirely, not an actual FTP client with HTTP/HTTPS URLs bolted on. It's not - it still accepts a host as an argument and opens a CLI if there's an FTP server to talk to.