TechRepublic

Analysis of Diffie Hellman Key Exchange Algorithm with Proposed Key Exchange Algorithm

Asymmetric cryptography or public-key cryptography is cryptography in which a pair of keys is used to encrypt and decrypt a message so that it arrives securely. Initially, a network user receives a ...
ZDNet

Logjam security flaw leaves top HTTPS websites, mail servers vulnerable

On Tuesday, a team of computer scientists released a report (.PDF) documenting cryptographic problems with the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, a popular algorithm used by Internet protocols to agree on a ...
Threat Post

TLS 1.3 Working Group Has Consensus to Deprecate RSA Key Transport

RSA key transport cipher suites could be deprecated in TLS 1.3 in favor of Diffie-Hellman Exchange or Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman. The IETF working group responsible for the TLS 1.3 standard is ...
Threat Post

New Logjam Attack on Diffie-Hellman Threatens Security of Browsers, VPNs

Researchers have uncovered a flaw in the way that some servers handle the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, a bug that’s somewhat similar to the FREAK attack and threatens the security of many Web and mail ...
InfoWorld

Martin Hellman: We’re playing Russian roulette

Martin Hellman achieved legendary status as co-inventor of the Diffie-Hellman public key exchange algorithm, a breakthrough in software and computer cryptography. That invention and his ongoing work ...
The Next Web

There’s a new problem with SSL called “Logjam”, here’s what you need to know

It seems like we just got over the Heartbleed vulnerability, but there’s another major flaw with SSL called “logjam” that affects a number of fundamental Web protocols. The bug affects an algorithm ...
Ars Technica

In public key authentication, why are the private keys used with the client and not the other way around?

I'm trying to understand how public key authentication works and with tools such as ChatGPT I'm able to resolve how it works; the server keeps a tab of "authorized" public keys and uses them to ...