[Cryptography] How the NSA broke trillions of encrypted connections

Tamzen Cannoy tamzen at cannoy.org
Fri Oct 14 11:56:05 EDT 2016


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http://thehackernews.com/2016/10/nsa-crack-encryption.html

Paper here:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/961.pdf

"In this paper, we demonstrate that constructing and exploiting trapdoored primes for Diffie-Hellman and DSA is feasible for 1024-bit keys with modern academic computing resources."


Tamzen




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