Possible crypto backdoor in RFC-2631 Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method

Georgi Guninski guninski at guninski.com
Sun Sep 13 05:15:00 PDT 2015


On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 02:39:08PM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> FYI:
> 
> This is on libressl-dev:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.libressl/74
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.libressl
>

 From libressl's commits (modulo me being MITMed)

https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/commit/105c86f3ed1508e9bb55ea3e59670b388ec7a076

first round of 2.3.0 release notes

[line 52] 
+  Thanks for <censored>  for
+  mentioning the possibility of a weak (non prime) q value and
+  providing a test case.
+
+  See
+  https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2015-September/009007.html
+  for a longer discussion.





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