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finwo / asymmetric-diffie-hellman-js

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Rename the project #2

Open finwo opened 4 years ago

finwo commented 4 years ago

This key exchange algorithm is just based on diffie-hellman, not the actual algorithm. It was intended as non-interactive key exchange for encrypted messages over an insecure medium.

I should release the name of the package (allowing someone to claim it by contacting me on gitter)

Maybe rename it to something like asymmetric-key-exchange?

finwo commented 3 years ago

In essence, this package handles a key exchange in a non-interactive manner between parties, where the sender already knows the receiver's public key. With this package, only the intended receiver is able to deduct the used encryption key, proving to the receiver that the sender knows the secret of the used key.

Couple of downsides:

The sender must already know the public key of the receiver
The keys used in this package are weak (256-bit while it's recommended to use 2048-bit keys)