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by tptacek 6219 days ago
If you can manipulate a DH exchange, you definitely have bigger problems than forgetting to check DH parameters. It's worth noting that DH is one of those crypto building blocks that by itself provides basically no security (for instance, DH in SSL/TLS is secure because it's backed by an RSA trust anchor). It's just a tool for making other crypto primitives more flexible.
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Agreed. Still, I can't decipher the IKE spec, but does it really prevent this - i.e. do any of the other building blocks actually prevent the conversation from continuing using a compromised shared key?