Each party selects a private key and calculates their public key using the formula ( g^{\text{private key}} \mod p ). Each party then shares their public key with the other. Secret Key Computation: ...

1.Agree on Public Keys: Choose prime number P and primitive root G. 2.Generate Private Keys: Alice chooses a, Bob chooses b. 3.Calculate Public Keys: Alice computes x = Ga mod P, Bob computes y = Gb ...

Martijn Grooten is a mathematician-turned-security professional. He is currently Editor of Virus Bulletin and does the occasional security research on the side in which, wherever possible, he likes to ...

Researchers have uncovered a flaw in the way that some servers handle the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, a bug that’s somewhat similar to the FREAK attack and threatens the security of many Web and mail ...

In my previous article/video how does encryption work? I wrote about the principles of encryption starting with the Caesar cipher and following the development of cryptography through to the modern ...

On Tuesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the nation’s leading organization for computer science, awarded its annual top prize of $1 million to two men whose name will forever be ...

A researcher challenges a conclusion in a recent academic paper on weak Diffie-Hellman implementations that claims 66 percent of IPsec VPN connections are at risk. A challenge has been made against ...