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Re: [TLS] Short Ephermal Diffie-Hellman keys

pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) Wed, 16 May 2007 03:49 UTC

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Dr Stephen Henson <lists@drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk> writes:

>Speaking of which what do people think about including the sub prime value
>(aka "q") as an optional value in DH parameters in a TLS 1.2 handshake?

It's a good idea, I've been wanting that for awhile (SSH should be doing this
as well).

Peter.

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