Tag: logjam
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Weak keys and prime reuse make Diffie-Hellman implementations vulnerable
‘Logjam’ attack possibly used by the NSA to decrypt VPN traffic. A group of researchers have discovered a number of vulnerabilities in the way the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol is deployed and have demonstrated an attack (dubbed ‘ Logjam ‘) that exploits these vulnerabilities. Diffie-Hellman is used by two entities (typically referred to as Alice…