Electronic surveillance

Encryption Flaw Allows the NSA to Break HTTPS and VPN Traffic

The research paper is not new, having already been released to the public back in May, when it caused a lot of ruckus in the infosec community, exposing the famous Logjam attack, which could be used to compromise secure communications between a client and a server by downgrading the TLS connection to the vulnerable 512-bit, export-grade cryptography.

Now, along with the presentation that its authors gave to the ACM CCS audience, anexplanatory article on one of Princeton University's blogs also sheds some light on the theory its creators have around their research.