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Re: [TLS] Static DH timing attack

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 10 September 2020 18:11 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Achim Kraus <achimkraus@gmx.net>, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [TLS] Static DH timing attack
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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:11:02 +0000
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Static DH timing attack
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Much as I hesitate to disagree with Peter:

    > Reason the second: Telling people not to use static-ephemeral DH will mean
    > telling them not to use 25519 key exchange, which will make their heads
    > asplode.

Do you mean this because people will confuse DH with ECDHE ?

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