Questions tagged [diffie-hellman]
Diffie-Hellman is a method for establishing a shared secret that can be used as a cryptographic key.
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how to send prime and generator of diffie hell-men to client over network node js?
I am using crypto module of node js for exchanging key using diffie-hellman algorithm.
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const crypto = require("crypto");
const alice = crypto.createDiffieHellman(512);
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Intercepting messeges in attacks on authentication protocols
I've recently read about Diffie-Hellman Man-in-the-Middle attack when a third party can intercept messages and thus construt two different symetric keys with both sides. However I still don't ...
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Which algorithm is used to combine a key between client and server?
I read a lot of Q&A here, and read a lot of articles about RSA and Diffie-Hellman, but it seems like they are all saying opposite things about the question:
When I start an HTTPS session in a ...
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How to decrypt Diffie-Hellman in wireshark?
How can i decrypt Diffie-hellman TCP packets?
I'm trying to make a tool that shows cleartext response from a server that uses this encryption.
However when i look online people all seem to say it's ...
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Do I need an ECDSA SSL certificate to use Diffie–Hellman key exchange method?
I cannot quite understand the role of Diffie–Hellman key exchange.
Does RSA SSL certificate work with the Diffie–Hellman key exchange or is it only used with an ECDSA certificate?
When is Diffie–...
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ECDH_SHA2_NISTP256 (KEX) Algorithm in SSH - Vulnerabilities?
My organization within my company uses this KEX Algorithm in our SSH Implementation.
Another organization within my company won't connect to our servers as long as this algorithm is implemented as ...
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In which sense is Perfect Forward Secrecy perfect? [duplicate]
Wikipedia states that Perfect Forward Secrecy "is a feature of specific key agreement protocols that gives assurances that session keys will not be compromised even if the private key of the server is ...
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When does chrome generate the prime number for TLS communication?
In a TLS handshake using DH to negotiate a session key, a prime number on both sides must exist. Calculating a prime number large enough to be secure takes a litte computational time.
When does ...
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Using Diffie-Hellman exchange on low power IoT devices
I have almost 0 knowledge of IoT, their protocols and usual device constraints. I had a discussion today with someone that has a fair amount of IoT experience and we were discussing some security ...
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DH cipher suites and DH OpenSSL Generated
I need a openssl generated diffie-hellman params for work with ECDHE or DHE cipher suites on TLSv1.2 nginx server?
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Why is the Diffie-Hellmann exchange not enough to authenticate the communication partners in IKE_SA_INIT?
The IKE_SA_INIT does create a key seed SKEYSEED from the Diffie-Hellman values and nonces. Since the exchange does sharing the secret between the communication partners, I do not understand why it is ...
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Command to check a website is vulnerable to Logjam
I am referring this post https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/05/20/logjam-freak-upcoming-changes/ and trying to see a website is vulnerable to Logjam or not.
I try with www.google.com:443 but I am ...
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Is there any way to send data securely from multiple As to B in the presence of eavesdropper, without losing anonymity like in a public key exchange?
Suppose I have n subordinates at work. Any subordinate should be able to submit his or her report anonymously to me via digital means.
Also suppose that I have no means of broadcasting any form of ...
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Is there a benefit to Diffie-Hellman parameter rotation?
When setting up a web server with TLS support I've generated my dhparams with openssl dhparam -C 2048 some.pem. I understand that the output in some.pem are the parameters by which DH key exchange ...
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ECDSA ECDH Man In The Middle Attack
We have a long-term key used for signing/verifying the ephemeral keys. The problem is we have to first share the long term public key with the other party. Is it possible to avoid a man in the middle ...
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Is client-side password hashing still useful when using TLS? Is TLS crackable? What about PFS? [duplicate]
Is client-side password hashing still necessary / useful when using TLS? What about TLS protocols with PFS (perfect forward secrecy) like Diffie-Hellman?
Let’s say that I’m running a web application ...
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Why do predefined FFDHE parameters containt '///////////'?
Recently, Mozilla published a new and excellent version of its SSL Configuration Generator. One of the changes compared to previous versions was to use predefined FFDHE (Finite Field Diffie-Hellman ...
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Diffie–Hellman key exchange questions [closed]
at the moment I am working on a chat application, where more than two clients can communicate at the same time.
I just got started with the encryption so please be bear with me.
My goal is to ...
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how are symmetric keys generated in TLS [duplicate]
My confusion stems from reading that TLS handshake uses some kind of Diffie Hellmann, when I was certain that the symmetric key was generated by a digest of earlier packets encrypted with clients ...
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How to decrypt Diffie-Hellman encryption in WebRTC?
I have installed a WebRTC server application, which is designed for Contact Center solutions: communicates with internal PCs in pure RTP (agents), and with external PCs (customers) using encrypted ...
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TLS-Handshake, Server Key Exchange, Diffie-Hellman: Where does key length come from?
Where does the key length come from?
In this example it is 2048 bits long:
Secure Sockets Layer
TLSv1.2 Record Layer: Handshake Protocol: Server Key Exchange
Content Type: Handshake (22)...
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Self-signed certificates and ephemeral Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol
If we use a self-signed certificate, is ephemeral Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol vulnerable to a man in the middle attack?
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Diffie-Hellman with non-prime modulus
When using the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange, it is said to be important to use a safe prime. However, if a non-prime modulus with sufficient bit-length is generated, is there an attack that can be used ...
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Public key encryption confusion
I'm learning Linux, and currently SSH. But there are details that I don't really understand.
I've seen and understood how Diffie-Hellman key exchanges work from a mathematical point of view, but what ...
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How to find the DH prime value (if 1024 or 2048) from Internet?
I have to ensure that the server when communicating on the Internet needs to have DH prime value of 2048 bits or greater.
I can find out the cipher suites that are used but cannot derive the DH ...
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OpenSSL - 2040 bit temporary key size, 2048 bit private key
Recently, I had an OpenVAS scan report that a TLS connection to Postfix used a temporary key size of 2040 bits, instead of the 2048 bits that I have set for my key size, and I have perfect forward ...
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Perfect forward secrecy in Instant Messaging with multiple devices
I have read multiple sites online about PFS and DH but I still have a few questions.
I understand that in order to have PFS you must use different keys to encrypt messages. So your IM client could be ...
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How to verify Diffie Hellman uses a “Safe” prime
I'm the developer for a web application that was recently pen tested. One of the vulnerabilities reported from the pen test is that our server uses an unsafe Diffie-Hellman prime in our key exchange. ...
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How does TLS work (RSA, Diffie-Hellman, PFS)?
I know "How TLS works" has been discussed numerous times here and crypto, but I am still somewhat confused and would like to summarize what I know so far 1 in this giant blob of text with the hope ...
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Usage of SSL_CTX_use_certificate
While building a context through openssl, if I do not provide a certificate by using the function SSL_CTX_use_certificate, would all the connections from that context default to anonymous diffie-...
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Can a DH param .pem file force the usage of only a single type of diffie-hellman exchange
Is it possible to create a diffie-hellman param .pem file to force the openssl ctx to use only a certain type of dh exchange. For example, I know that it can be used to set the length of the dh key, ...
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Understand DHE security in TLS
SSL Labs says that a website I control supports weak ciphersuites because they have DH 1024 bit, e.g. this one: TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (0x9f).
I tried to connect to the website from my ...
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ECDH and static key encryption
It's been a while and I'm still trying to figure out if my understanding of ECC crypto is correct.
Basically from what I understood a purely asymmetric encryption is never used. Usually the ...
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How to optimize the diffie hellman key exchange algorithm
I am making a chat feature in my app where I want to encrypt it E2EE, but the problem is when I start to calculate the public key (public key = g^private % n) it takes a decade to get it done. I need ...
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BouncyCastle and Microsoft Cng ECDH secret key mismatch
I'm trying to refactor some client-side code from BouncyCastle to Microsoft Cng. I've figured out how to convert key format(ECC key blobs) between them, but I couldn't calculate the same secret.
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Why Diffie-Hellman instead of just share the secret [duplicate]
I read that D-H is used to make a shared secret between parties that then they use to encrypt the messages.
This is used in TLS, for example, after the server has authenticated itself with a ...
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Signal Protocol: How is identity exchanged if a key exchange hasn't happened yet?
On Signal's blog they mention that keys for accessing your profile are exchanged normally with your contacts using the Signal Protocol just like messages are (implying they are already contacts and ...
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WPA technical doubts (3)
This is the third post about the set of doubts that came up when I tried to understand WPA3. I am new to this world of cyber-security so every bit of help is welcome!
Someone told me that in WPA2 ...
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Different Diffie–Hellman key per site?
I recently put each of my sites through the ssl labs analyzer and now have them all running with an A+ getting perfect scores with every metric except Key Exchange at 90.
As part of this I have ...
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Advantage Of ECDH-RSA over RSA Ciphersuites In TLS
If ECDH-RSA is used for key exchange, this is what happens:
The server has its public ECDH parameter embedded within its certificate. The client generates its public ECDH parameter, extracts the ...
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Diffie-Hellman protocol CA, confusing
In the Diffie-Hellman protocol, if the participants have their own private key and a generated public key. How can we determine whether or not they have a trusted CA for authentication or just the ...
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understanding MITM attack [duplicate]
hi Everyone please correct me if im wrong for my understanding for the man in the middle attack used in a variant of diffie hellman key exchange .
am i right to say that a protocol is susceptible to ...
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Why use a separate key exchange method like DH during the TLS handshake [duplicate]
Ok first off I'm very familiar with the TLS handshake, the purpose of PKI and key exchange methods.
My question is why use a complicated key exchange method like Diffie Hellman when the client could ...
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Is server public key and Diffie Hellman public are the same?
I am trying to understand the working of TLS. I understand that there are various way to generate the master secret used to encrypting the data. Such as DH (Ephemeral DHE) and RSA. I understand that, ...
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diffie-hellman size 2048 and key with size 1024
I want to increase the security of my Tomcat and to configure diffie-hellman module size 2048.
I want to add to my CATALINA_OPTS -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048
What happens if I have configured it ...
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Diffie-Hellman in Android File Transfer application [closed]
I'm working on the famous android app to transfer files using WiFi-Direct technology:
https://github.com/Miserlou/Android-SDK-Samples/tree/master/WiFiDirectDemo
I want to implement a key exchange ...
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How can disabling Diffie-Hellman cipher for packet inspection be secure?
I have noticed that a number of network packet monitoring tools on the market today seem to have roughly the same recommended configuration parameters as described below:
Disable Diffie Hellman in ...
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Exchange of public keys with DHE-RSA
The paper "Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice" by Adrian et al claims that the NSA might be able to eavesdrop on a large percentage of TLS connections, because they ...
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How to perform a MITM attack on SSH exploiting the Diffie Hellman key exchange
I have an open-ended project for a class and I picked to make a tool/use existing tools and applications to exploit the Diffie-Hellman key exchange to be able to inject, modify and delete messages ...
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Is Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol vulnerable to man in the middle attack?
Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol vulnerable to man in the middle attack? If yes, then what type of MITM is that? I believe that is a replay attack or a relay attack, not sure though.
