HPR2510: 26 - Diffie-Hellman-Merkle Key Exchange

Summary: 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. For more go to http://www.zwilnik.com/?page_id=955 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 http://www.zwilnik.com/?page_id=955