In A World With No Encryption Keys: Shamir’s No-key Protocol
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4 min readOct 24, 2020
Why do we need encryption keys to pass secret? Well, it is a convenient way for Bob and Alice to share something that Eve can’t get access too. But could we just pass messages without needed to know encryption keys, or even using key-based encryption? Well, the magic of discrete logs comes to our rescue here.