Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange is based on work initially done by Ralph Merkle, and remains one of the key developments in secure communication over the Internet. In this episode I try to explain just how this works, with an example of a calculated key exchange.

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Links

https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_arithmetic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_logarithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack

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