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Materials for presenting a live demo of Diffie Hellman key exchange principles
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"Trapdoor functions" in README #1

Closed AGWA closed 9 years ago

AGWA commented 9 years ago

The README mentions trapdoor functions, but Diffie-Hellman doesn't use trapdoor functions. Unlike RSA, where decryption is the inverse of encryption, there are no inversions involved in Diffie-Hellman, and hence no need for a trapdoor. Instead, the modular exponentiation that underpins Diffie-Hellman's security is simply a "one-way function."

tollmanz commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the clarification. I fixed this. Please let me know if you see any other such issues.