Logjam: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice

https://weakdh.org

I would highly recommend that everyone update their browsers on their clearnet/regular computers, and keep a close eye on when Tails will be updated (which should be coming soon), as well as any other browser updates that should also be coming soon to patch this.


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[1 Points] ShulginsCat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiG7z1lrs70


[1 Points] 88888888555e332:

Holy shit this is bad.

This study was performed by computer scientists at CNRS, Inria Nancy-Grand Est, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, Microsoft Research, Johns Hopkins University, University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania: David Adrian, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Zakir Durumeric, Pierrick Gaudry, Matthew Green, J. Alex Halderman, Nadia Heninger, Drew Springall, Emmanuel Thomé, Luke Valenta, Benjamin VanderSloot, Eric Wustrow, Santiago Zanella-Beguelin, and Paul Zimmermann.

Real bad

A close reading of published NSA leaks shows that the agency's attacks on VPNs are consistent with having achieved such a break.

I wonder what implications this has on Tor