Imperfect forward secrecy.

We investigate the security of Diffie-Hellman key exchange as used in popular Internet protocols and find it to be less secure than widely believed. First, we present Logjam, a novel flaw in TLS that lets a man-in-the-middle downgrade connections to "export-grade" Diffie-Hellman. To carry out this a...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 106 - 115
Main Authors:	Adrian, David, Bhargavan, Karthikeyan, Durumeric, Zakir, Gaudry, Pierrick, Green, Matthew, Halderman, J. Alex, Heninger, Nadia, Springall, Drew, Thomé, Emmanuel, Valenta, Luke, VanderSloot, Benjamin, Wustrow, Eric, Zanella-Béguelin, Santiago, Zimmermann, Paul
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jan2019
Subjects:	Computer network protocols Public key cryptography Cryptography Cryptosystems Data encryption Computer network security Virtual private networks
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