DH Group Exchange Fallback

Joseph S Testa II
2017-09-22T21:01:47Z

On 09/22/2017 03:22 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Thu 2017-09-21 18:12:44 -0400, Joseph S Testa II wrote:
>>      I gotta say... having a fallback mechanism here seems pretty
>> strange.  The entire point of the group exchange is to use a dynamic
>> group and not a static one.
>
> fwiw, i think dynamic groups for DHE key exchange is intrinsically
> problematic when there is any computational expense in validating the
> quality of the group parameters.

While some may agree with this, the fact remains that the current
implementation isn't working as expected.  I'm interested in correcting
the behavior.

    - Joe