[OTR-dev] IFF meeting notes - OTRv4

jvoisin julien.voisin at dustri.org
Thu Mar 17 17:54:25 EDT 2016


> Just to slightly hedge against elliptic curves being weaker than we 
> think, or even to quantum computers with hundreds but not thousands
> of qubits, the whole OTRv4 protocol (which itself uses ECC such as 
> curve25519 or maybe one of the 400-ish-bit ones) is wrapped in a 
> 2048-bit mod p Diffie-Hellman.  The outer layer is not explicitly 
> authenticated.

Isn't 2048-bit mod p Diffie-Hellman a bit short for a modern protocol?
At least, this is what the BSI is saying: https://www.keylength.com/en/8/


(also, thanks for the notes!)


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