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When it comes to the Diffie-Hellman algorithm, there seem to be many confusions from newbies in Cryptography as to whether an attacker could easily recompute the shared key by intercepting the prime numbers + public keys. While the answer is “no”, understanding why, requires an understanding the discrete logarithm problem. So here we go. Discrete Logarithm [...]
Oct 31st, 2011 | Filed under Cryptography
Tags: encryption, logarithm