Re: [TLS] Another IRINA bug in TLS

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com> Wed, 20 May 2015 15:57 UTC

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----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 10:05 -0400, Watson Ladd wrote:
> >> https://weakdh.org/
> >>
> >> Transcript hashing will solve this problem. In the meantime, you want
> >> to turn off DH_EXPORT.
> > The interesting thing is that there are no DHE_EXPORT ciphersuites.
> I was also wondering about that. IANA has no entries for DHE_EXPORT*. As
> far as I can tell there isn't even information on the searchable web on
> that. If you google DHE_EXPORT it'll point you to this very paper and
> that's about it.

They are most probably using sloppy language and mean the DHE ciphersuites
with parameters of 512 bits or less.

regards,
Nikos