Trillian Secure IM

Dave Howe DaveHowe at gmx.co.uk
Mon Oct 8 11:58:08 EDT 2007


Marcos el Ruptor wrote:
>> If that's DH exchange, then it's 128 bit one. Fertile ground
>> for some interesting speculation, don't you think ?
> 
> There is no speculation. It is 128-bit DH.
> 
> I have reported over three years ago to the Trillian forum that they are 
> using 128-bit DH and that it is not secure. You can look up my messages 
> about it and how much I got abused for it by everyone trying to explain 
> to me that 1) it IS secure and 2) no one cares anyway. They did not 
> change it since then although they promised to. 

Had a look, but it seems to me they said they wouldn't fix it unless 
there was an actual, active exploit for it, and my guess would be even 
then they would just make cosmetic changes to stop that particular 
instance of an exploit from working..

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