On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 07:57:41AM +0000, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusva...@welho.com> writes:
> 
> >More serious problem is servers returning too small modulus due lack of
> >negotiation. Which was the reason why Chrome disabled DHE.
> 
> Why not reject the handshake if the modulus is too small, rather than
> disabling all DHE suites on the off chance that the server returns a value you
> don't like?

Chrome initially did that. It caused quite a lot of bad feedback from
owners of various bad embedded stuff. The thread on relevant forums was
quite something. Hundreds of messages blaming Google for breaking
stuff.


-Ilari

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