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

Georgi Guninski guninski@guninski.com
Thu Feb 18 02:08:12 PST 2016


Observe that reusage of group parameters in DH appears common:

Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice

https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy-ccs15.pdf
p.3

Table 1: Top 512-bit DH primes for TLS. 8.4% of Alexa
Top 1M HTTPS domains allow DHE_EXPORT, of which
92.3% use one of the two most popular primes, shown here.


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