Re: [TLS] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe-04.txt

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> Fri, 05 December 2014 20:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe-04.txt
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On 12/05/2014 01:41 PM, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>  This draft is a work item of the Transport Layer Security Working Group of the IETF.
> 
>         Title           : Negotiated Finite Field Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral Parameters for TLS
>         Author          : Daniel Kahn Gillmor
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe-04.txt
> 	Pages           : 22
> 	Date            : 2014-12-05

The main change here is to reduce the weakest group from ffdhe2432 to
ffdhe2048, as the result of the straw poll here.

I've published primality proofs of p and q for all four groups online
for those who want to verify them:

  https://dkg.fifthhorseman.net/ffdhe-primality-proofs/

Regards,

	--dkg