[tor-talk] How the NSA breaks Diffie-Hellmann

[Lluís]

Pretty reassuring and comforting. :))

Lluís

Nick Mathewson:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 4:52 AM, Lluís <2015.msl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I understand, from a post to this list, than tor is switching from RSA
>> to elliptic curve key generation.
>>
>> What would we expect from that update ?
>>
> 
> For encryption, it already happened back in 0.2.4, with the
> introduction of the ntor protocol.  (And with the use of ecdhe in tls
> where available.)
> 
> The remaining use of RSA is for authentication, and should be mostly
> phased out over the next 8 months.
>