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Logjam TLS attack

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Re: Logjam TLS attack

#101
At least JSSE Java uses random primes (generated at startup). However the Java 8 default of 1024 is rather weak (not to mention the 768 bit of java 6+7). Whats worse is, that clients accept down to 512 bit. (And the client side is harder to protect with ssl accelerators). But there is SunPKCS11-NSS as an provider.

Re: Logjam TLS attack

#102

My side project tries to give secure default settings for all major webservers and other software (like haproxy, mysql, mailservers etc): https://cipherli.st/ From the start it has listed the suggestion to set up >2048 DH keys. If you want to test your site for export ciphers, you can try my other side project: https://tls.so/ - you can also use the SSL labs test but mine is faster for just testing ciphersuite. (And…

Also check out Applebaums Duraconf: https://github.com/ioerror/duraconf

Re: Logjam TLS attack

#103
post #101

At least JSSE Java uses random primes (generated at startup). However the Java 8 default of 1024 is rather weak (not to mention the 768 bit of java 6+7). Whats worse is, that clients accept down to 512 bit. (And the client side is harder to protect with ssl accelerators). But there is SunPKCS11-NSS as an provider.

I am wrong, no random primes.
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