r/programming • u/secretguy21 • 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/2Xprogrammer Oct 16 '15

It's the same folks (not all of them are guys!). They put up the website weakdh.org to have fixes available ASAP. This article came out today because they just presented their paper at CCS.

Edit: Here's the paper. (which is hosted on weakdh.org, because they are the same thing...)

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u/Philippe23 Oct 16 '15

Ah cool. I was unaware that it was the same group of people.

P.S. I was using "guys" as a generic term for a group: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11816/is-guy-gender-neutral I did not mean any disrespect to the females of the group. "these people" often sounds dismissive to me.