Are Secure Communications Really Secure? Government Sites Affected by Weak DHE

How secure is online public communication? Last May, a paper was published that discusses about the Diffie-Helman (DH) crypto-strength deployment, which gives strong evidence that the current DH usage is weak and suggests that 1024-bit size parameters can be broken with a nation state’s computing power resources. The paper presents possible scenarios where such an incident could occur. They found,…