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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 23:41:39 -0400
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@...thhorseman.net>
To: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
Cc: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Prime example of a can of worms
On Thu 2015-10-22 19:37:49 -0400, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> Sorry when I said a "large" pool I meant more then the current 5 or so that
> seem to be in popular use, but certainly not more than a few hundred.
ok, that's a relief :) but, running the numbers, even 100 hundred
2048-bit groups comes out to a quarter MiB of RAM. (i figure 256 bytes
per prime, a well-known, shared generator)
Larger groups (or more groups) inflate the size even further. I know
RAM is cheap these days but for embedded devices a quarter meg or more
of RAM is still not insignificant.
> Basically we're in agreement, I think nothing under 2048 should even be
> considered, and we probably need to bump that up in a few years anyways.
yep, agreed.
> I've also been going through source code to see how people use dh
> params/treat them, and I have some worrying results (basically what I
> expected though, everything is terrible as usual)
:/
> I'm going to be writing this up as an article rather than a long email as I
> have a few more sticky points to raise (security rabbit holes are so much
> fun).
I look forward to reading it.
--dkg
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