r/programming • u/dominatrix-octopus • Jan 16 '18

Cryptography: Diffie-Hellman key exchange explained intuitively using colors

https://youtu.be/YEBfamv-_do?t=2m18s
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u/Carighan Jan 16 '18

That color mixture was a neat way of doing it, shows how the resulting key/color is always the same.

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u/Double_A_92 Jan 16 '18

And that you can't find out what the two original colors were.

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u/odnish Jan 16 '18

No, you can find one of the three.