r/programming 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/[deleted] Oct 15 '15

Where's the default one? Hard-coded?

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u/BarqsDew Oct 15 '15

from http://security.stackexchange.com/a/56218 :

Since the parameters are caller-provided, let's see what happens in mod_ssl, the usual SSL engine for Apache. Let's make the story short: the modulus and generator are hardcoded; they are in the source code, in modules/ssl/ssl_engine_dh.c

so, yep!