&quot;Since weak use of Diffie-Hellman is widespread in standards and implementations, it will be many years before the problems go away, even given existing security recommendations and our new findings. In the meantime, other large governments potentially can implement similar attacks, if they haven’t already.
&quot;<p>can someone explain to me why this cant be fixed over night. im no crypto expert, but<p>&quot; If a client and server are speaking Diffie-Hellman, they first need to agree on a large prime number with a particular form. &quot;<p>why can&#x27;t you just switch the large prime number and then continue on sending encrypted data?