Photo by Cytonn Photography on Unsplash

An Alternative Diffie-Hellman Method … and What is (mod 1)?

In 1978, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman created the Diffie-Hellman key exchange method, and which has since become one of the foundation principles of cybersecurity. With this, Bob and Alice agree on a generator value (g) and a prime number (p). To generate a shared key, Alice generates a random value (a) and computes A=g^a (mod p), and sends A to Bob. Bob generates a random value…