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Handshaking Keys for Privacy with ECDH … Let’s “Go” Create It!

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

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A fundamental part of creating a secure tunnel — such as with HTTPs — is that the client and server generate the same shared symmetric key (typically with the AES method), and that they use this to encrypt the data passed.

In days of old, the HTTPs key exchange method was the horrible RSA encryption technique. With this, the RSA public key of the server —…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.