[Cryptography] [FORGED] Re: ratcheting DH strengths over time

Tony Arcieri bascule at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 12:45:09 EST 2015


On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Tony Arcieri <bascule at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >There is no reason to use FFDH anymore save for legacy compatibility or a
> >catastrophic failure of ECC. Use ECDH instead.
>
> [Citation needed]
>
> (Specifically, one that doesn't simply defer to numerology).


For what it's worth, future releases of Chromium / Chrome will be dropping
DHE support:

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/security-dev/dYyhKHPnrI0


-- 
Tony Arcieri
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