From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Diffie-Hellman key exchange has been lowered to 256 bits
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:55:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mvwlovj.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ha3dggj6.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org>
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 14:33:49 +0000 James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "M" == Melleus <melleus@openmailbox.org> writes:
M> Emacs' gnutls security defaults have been changed.
JC> With the default of 256 for gnutls-min-prime-bits, it shouldn't complain
JC> about ecdh with SECP256R1. The fact that it does implies that the logic
JC> around that variable is wrong.
There is no logic, just a default. We had to pick a default value that
wouldn't break too many users and encourage people to increase it.
JC> It also shouldn't complain when the remote site, such as gmane, doesn't
JC> offer ecdh.
I think it should, since IIUC (but I'm not an expert) EC-DH eliminates
the need for `gnutls-min-prime-bits' altogether.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-24 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-21 11:44 James Cloos
2014-06-22 8:35 ` Melleus
2014-06-22 14:33 ` James Cloos
2014-09-24 20:55 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2015-01-28 5:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-28 12:32 ` Greg Troxel
2015-01-29 1:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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