Do you want to know a secret? You probably do, question is, would you like it if anyone else knew your secret as well? I am guessing not. That is why, on the Internet, we use encryption for the data that we send and receive, just to make sure that someone else is not listening in on our conversation. Encryption is not only used when directly communicating with each other, it is also used for something we call “integrity”, a.k.a. “I want to make sure that I get what the other end is sending without anyone modifying it in transit”. So, use encryption anywhere! read on while we explore the basics on how data is securely transferred from one place to another using Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
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