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Re: [TLS] DH generator 2 problem?

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 08 October 2020 18:23 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com>, TLS List <tls@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [TLS] DH generator 2 problem?
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>    Should we define some new DH parameters which use a
    different generator?  Maybe the primes are fine....

I think the efforts these days are focused on using X25519, X448, etc.

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