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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-72

Insecure Diffie-Hellman key exchange

Announced
October 19, 2010
Reporter
Nelson Bolyard
Impact
Low
Products
Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
Fixed in
  • Firefox 3.5.14
  • Firefox 3.6.11
  • SeaMonkey 2.0.9
  • Thunderbird 3.0.9
  • Thunderbird 3.1.5

Description

Mozilla cryptographer Nelson Bolyard reported that the SSL implementation was permitting servers to use Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral mode (DHE) with too short of a minimum key length. DHE keys of such lengths are trivially breakable on modern hardware so SSL servers operating in this mode were providing very little effective security for their clients.

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