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tankenmate on Feb 1, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was...

> While it's smart to assume so, it's also pretty laughable to think that the NSA has an exhaustive list of encryption vulnerabilities.

True, but in this case I'm sure they have enough hardware to factor any widely deployed primes used in crypto or semi crypto comms software. After all, that is half of the NSAs job description.

Lozzer on Feb 2, 2016 | [–]

I expect you have enough hardware to factor widely deployed primes. Compound numbers might be a different story.

duaneb on Feb 1, 2016 | [–]

Definitely agree with this.

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