Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman with RSA (DHE-RSA)

Cryptography is going to the top of the agenda within many areas of our lives, and it is being targeted by the EU within GDPR, and by some politicians in cracking the keys involved.

One way for Bob and Alice to create a shared encryption key is for Alice to pass her public key to Bob, and then for Bob to generate the key and encrypt it with Alice’s public key. Bob then passes this back…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE

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Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. EU Citizen. Auld Reekie native. Old World Breaker. New World Creator.

ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

This publication brings together interesting articles related to cyber security.

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