Ran into Alex Halderman recently. He casually said "we found a weakness in Diffie-Hellman." My jaw dropped. GO READ. https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/haldermanheninger/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/ …
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@NerdProf@SquibFizz Diffie-Helman as widely implemented, confluence of number theory and implementation as they say.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@NerdProf@SquibFizz I'm trying to highlight this because this is more than oh look another flash 0day which isn't even news anymore..2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@NerdProf@SquibFizz Yep. Crypto is making it too slow to compute plaintext so any speed up is weakness. Always mixed with implementation.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@NerdProf @SquibFizz It breaks forward secrecy though so there's that...Also highlights that we can defend crypto or weaken it. Not both.
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