Tag Archives: Diffie-Hellman key exchange

Researchers Demonstrated How NSA Broke Trillions of Encrypted Connections

In the year 2014, we came to know about the NSA’s ability to break Trillions of encrypted connections by exploiting common implementations of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm – thanks to classified documents leaked by ex-NSA employee Edward Snowden.

At that time, computer scientists and senior cryptographers had presented the most plausible theory: Only a few prime numbers were