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Re:Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award by AstralStorm on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @01:38AM (#11208441)
This skips the most important part of the proof which explains why this is not easily invertible without the secret key.
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Re:Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award by lkowalcz on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @10:22AM (#11210448)
What is this part? Isn't it just by assumption? (also, by secret key, I'm guessing you mean 'a', 'b')
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