June 2013
Beginner
504 pages
12h 28m
English
In 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman published a paper1 that first described one of the key underlying technologies for exchanging cryptographic keys between two parties that wish to communicate. This process, which has come to be known as the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, is now in common use throughout the Internet, particularly since the key U.S. patents covering this technology expired in 1997. Since this is such an important technology, let's look at how it works.
Let's say two users, whom we'll call Bonnie and Clyde, are trying to exchange a secret message. In order to do this, they need to agree on a common key that will be used to encrypt messages by the sender and decrypt messages for ...
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