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If you are looking for an intuitive, visual explanation of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange method I highly recommend watching the video from Computerphile [1] w
by fauria 5y ago
If you are looking for an intuitive, visual explanation of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange method I highly recommend watching the video from Computerphile [1] where the color-mixing analogy [2] is put into practice.
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmM9HA2MQGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmM9HA2MQGI
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange#General_overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exc...
- siparikh 5y agoHere is another video from "Art of the Problem" that uses the same analogy that really helped me understand this better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do
- noman-land 5y agoEasily the best layman's explanation out there. Really made it click in my head. I show this to everyone.
- foxyv 5y agoI think the color mixing analogy is probably the best. Probably since it's an actual implementation of Diffie-Hellman. The fact that it is so generic is pretty cool. I also like the prime number factorization explanation. It's a little harder to understand, but it's actually used in RSA which is pretty cool.