Can we disable diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 by default?

Yegor Ievlev koops1997 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 17:26:21 AEDT 2019


I referred to the fact that there is no value for 4096-bit groups at
all. For higher strengths than 128 bits one should probably not use
non-EC crypto at all, as the document suggests.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 9:19 AM Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 16:45, Yegor Ievlev <koops1997 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That doesn't seem to be the case. See
> > https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-57pt1r4.pdf
> > (5.6.1 Comparable Algorithm Strengths)
>
> For DH, the "Comparable strengths" table lists L=3072 for 128 bits and
> L=7680 for 192 bits.  To me that puts 4k groups a bit above 128 bits
> and well below 192 bits of security.   What are you referring to?
>
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