Encrypting and Decrypting Text
In a previous post, The Math That Enables Asymmetric Key Cryptography, I discussed how your web browser and a web server can establish an encrypted communication channel without requiring you and the web administrator to meet beforehand to exchange secret keys. I explained how your web browser and a web server exchange public keys, then perform math operations on their private keys and the exchanged public keys to derive the same shared key. And I emphasized the security of this technique (Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange) is guaranteed by the computational difficulty of determining the shared key from the partial information transmitted […]
