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Logjam, FREAK and upcoming changes in OpenSSL

Type: patchSources: OpenSSL news

OpenSSL strengthens cryptographic defaults in its stable branches, including rejecting DH parameters shorter than 768 bits and disabling export cipher suites by default. The announcement also describes changes to DH parameter generation and elliptic-curve support.

Products
OpenSSL
Affected versions
OpenSSL 1.0.1, OpenSSL 1.0.2
Fixed versions
OpenSSL 1.0.1n, OpenSSL 1.0.2b
CVEs
Not specified
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
2 Nov 2026, 00:58 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Logjam, FREAK and upcoming changes in OpenSSL

official-openssl-news · Original source

Published 20 May 2015, 18:12 UTC

OpenSSL strengthens cryptographic defaults in its stable branches, including rejecting DH parameters shorter than 768 bits and disabling export cipher suites by default. The announcement also describes changes to DH parameter generation and elliptic-curve support.

OpenSSL clients will reject connections with DH parameters shorter than 768 bits.

OpenSSL

Fixed versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2b, OpenSSL 1.0.1n

Complete source record
{
  "id": "252d0d4f026e11b2e9e345c2ef5f707e456f276b2157b6e9ed67f7eb48571368",
  "url": "https://openssl-library.org/post/2015-05-20-logjam-freak-upcoming-changes/",
  "method": "llm",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "patch",
    "title": "Logjam, FREAK and upcoming changes in OpenSSL",
    "summary": "OpenSSL strengthens cryptographic defaults in its stable branches, including rejecting DH parameters shorter than 768 bits and disabling export cipher suites by default. The announcement also describes changes to DH parameter generation and elliptic-curve support.",
    "evidence": "OpenSSL clients will reject connections with DH parameters shorter than 768 bits.",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "OpenSSL",
          "evidence": "Changes affecting OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.2:"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [
          {
            "value": "OpenSSL 1.0.2b",
            "evidence": "[OpenSSL 1.0.2b (next release), OpenSSL 1.0.1n (next release)]"
          },
          {
            "value": "OpenSSL 1.0.1n",
            "evidence": "[OpenSSL 1.0.2b (next release), OpenSSL 1.0.1n (next release)]"
          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "OpenSSL 1.0.1",
            "evidence": "Changes affecting OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.2:"
          },
          {
            "value": "OpenSSL 1.0.2",
            "evidence": "Changes affecting OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.2:"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "fixed_cves": [],
    "related_cves": [],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "official-openssl-news",
  "document_id": 24281,
  "published_at": "2015-05-20T18:12:00+00:00"
}