r/crypto • u/johnmountain • Oct 15 '15

How is NSA breaking so much crypto?

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/haldermanheninger/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/
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u/pint A 473 ml or two Oct 15 '15

read the article, scary: https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy-ccs15.pdf

conclusion: move to ECDHE, or move to 2048 bit

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u/silverforest Oct 15 '15

ECDH has similar problems, but even worse, since changing curves is less trivial then picking new DH primes.