EV> 07-12-15 08:21 Roger Nelson wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Logjam   
   EV> Howdy! Roger,   
       
   EV>RN> @MSGID: <55A2E5BA.14312.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
   EV>EV> I saw mention of Logjam in the Comment section of a AskWoody   
   EV> article.   
       
   EV>EV> weakdh.org is the website to check a browser to test it.   
       
   EV>EV> HTH   
       
   EV>RN> What does it do and what are its qualifications?   
       
       
   EV> At the top of the page it talks about Diffie-Hellman key exchange and   
   EV> says it is a popular cryptogrphic algorithm that allows Internet   
   EV> protocols to agree on a shared key.....   
   EV> -snip-   
   EV> Logjam allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to downgrade vulnerable TLS   
   EV> connections to 512-bit export-grade cryptography....   
   EV> -snip-   
   EV> Websites, mail servers, and other TLS-dependent services that support   
   EV> DHE_EXPORT ciphers are at risk for the Logjam attack. We use   
   EV> Internet-wide scanning (https://zmap.io) to measure who is vulnerable.   
       
   EV> Note: I've typed the above lines by hand, hopefully I didn't make too   
   EV> many typos.   
       
   EV> weakdh.org opens as a http:// page.   
       
   EV> The comment was made by RC Primak, who to me seems like He knows what   
   EV> He is talking about.   
       
   EV> I just thought I'd share the info here in case it was important to the   
   EV> folks in this echo that are computer professionals, and they hadn't   
   EV> heard about Logjam yet, so they could investigate it for themselves.   
       
   I've quoted the whole thing back so when my utility purges the echoes, I'll   
   have a copy of this and be able to research it for additional understanding.   
       
   Thanks, Ed.   
       
       
   Regards,   
       
   Roger   
      
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