Bug #11968: OpenSSL extension only supports weak (512-bit, 1024-bit) Diffie-Hellman groups

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN

[bascule (Tony Arcieri)]

The following D-H groups are enabled per default:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/ext/openssl/lib/openssl/pkey.rb

These use 512-bit and 1024-bit primes respectively. These are considered weak in 2015 by all present methods of evaluating D-H group size as a security parameter:

http://www.keylength.com/

Weak D-H groups like this were recently implicated in the Logjam attack:

https://weakdh.org/

512-bit D-H keys in particular can be trivially attacked by commodity hardware. I have put in a PR to the openssl gem to remove the 512-bit group:

https://github.com/ruby/openssl/pull/44

However, the 1024-bit group is weak as well. The recommendation of the Logjam paper authors is to upgrade to a 2048-bit group at the minimum.

[bascule (Tony Arcieri)]

I have opened a PR on GitHub here:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1196

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset r53531.

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• Remove 512-bit DH group. It's affected by LogJam Attack.
  https://weakdh.org/
  [fix GH-1196][Bug #11968][ruby-core:72766]