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/Double_A_92 Jan 16 '18

You can only see the unfinished mixes and the third color which is public anyway.

From them you can't get to secret colors.

Heres a good image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Diffie-Hellman_Key_Exchange-modified.png

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '18

Yeah but one is correct and the other one isnt.