There’s a server, a client, and a hacker in a network. For encryption, the client and the server need to share their private keys. Wouldn’t the hacker be able to grab those during their transmission and decrypt further messages as they please?

  • BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Published in 1976 by Diffie and Hellman, this is the earliest publicly known work that proposed the idea of a private key and a corresponding public key.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange