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Re:Dissecting the SSL handshake by notaddicted on Monday June 18, 2012 @12:16PM (#4127130)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch...

There is an example with mixing paint colors that is pretty easy to understand.

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Re:Dissecting the SSL handshake by baby on Saturday June 23, 2012 @08:05PM (#4152174)
it's also on KhanAcademy: http://www.khanacademy.org/science/brit-cruise/cryptography/...
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Re:Dissecting the SSL handshake by baby on Monday June 18, 2012 @03:43PM (#4128128)
this is neat! But it seems like they're doing huge calculations for that.

p is a prime number because it needs to be a cyclic group! It all makes sense :D

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