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Enabling DHE ciphers in Apache limits encryption strength (ivanristic.com)
1 point by dvdkhlng on Sept 9, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Note that Diffie-Hellman with 1024-bit keys is roughly equivalent to symmetric encryption with 80-bit keys [1]. The resulting connection is thus less secure than AES-128.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_size#Asymmetric_algorithm_...




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