 Diffie-Hellman key exchange (source code)

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= Diffie-Hellman key exchange
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Alice publishes $g^a$ and Bob publishes $g^b$ in a public cyclic group; each can then compute the shared secret $g^{ab}$. Its security relies on the difficulty of recovering the exponents or otherwise solving the computational Diffie--Hellman problem.

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