Diffie-Hellman

May 27, 2015

SECURITY

Understanding Logjam and Future-Proofing Your Infrastructure

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On May 19th, 2015 a team of researchers (Henninger et. al) published a paper with the title “Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice”. The paper can be divided in two sections: 1) discrete logs on a 512-bit Diffie-Hellman (DH) group, and 2) a new attack against the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. We’ll […]