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Re: [TLS] key sizes in TLS.

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> Mon, 17 June 2013 10:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] key sizes in TLS.
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Peter Gutmann
<pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

>>Overall my impression is that the DHE-based ciphersuites are pretty much
>>neglected.
> They're preferred cipher suites for several browsers, e.g. Firefox and Chrome:
> http://sim.ivi.co/2011/07/firefox-preference-of-tls-cipher-suites.html
> http://sim.ivi.co/2011/07/google-chrome-preference-of-tls-cipher.html
> so they're not only not neglected, they're actively used.

Actually in the links you post the ECDHE ciphersuites seem to be the
preferred choices. Nevertheless, I said that they are neglected, not
that they are not used. They are neglected because despite their known
issues, they have not been fixed.

regards,
Nikos

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