Its over a week now and Chrome Version 43.0.2357.81 m (latest) is still not patched.
Topic: The Logjam Attack and cryptographic algorithms (Read 591 times)
I've posted in the Development & Technical Discussion board about this issue just in case it is related to the Bitcoin Core client.
Published 2 days ago: https://weakdh.org/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/https-crippling-attack-threatens-tens-of-thousands-of-web-and-mail-servers/
So word is NSA has been exploiting this vulnerability for quite some time now. DH is also used by routers to negotiate VPNs.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/https-crippling-attack-threatens-tens-of-thousands-of-web-and-mail-servers/
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Tens of thousands of HTTPS-protected websites, mail servers, and other widely used Internet services are vulnerable to a new attack that lets eavesdroppers read and modify data passing through encrypted connections, a team of computer scientists has found.
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"But the name is also an allusion to the fact that these '90s-era export ciphers are part of an immense amount of technical debt that's built up in our crypto protocols," he added in an e-mail. "There's just too much dead wood that's accumulated over the years."
So word is NSA has been exploiting this vulnerability for quite some time now. DH is also used by routers to negotiate VPNs.
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