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1. Diffie Hellman Key Exchange Process
2. Diffie Hellman Symmetric Key Generation X
3. Diffie Hellman Cipher
4. Diffie Hellman Symmetric Key Generation Lyrics
5. Diffie Hellman Keys

Nov 26, 2016 Diffie Hellman Key Exchange in Hindi for Symmetric Key Encryption System – With Example Like FB Page - https://www.facebook.com/Easy-Engineering-Classes-3468. Apr 16, 2018  Diffie-Hellman-Merkle protocol to establish a shared secret key Alice and Bob each start with their own, private, values R and G, as well as a public common value Y. Alice uses Y along with her. Mar 11, 2019 The Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange is a way for two parties involved in an SSL transaction to agree upon a shared secret over an insecure channel. These parties have no prior knowledge about each other. This secret can be converted into cryptographic keying material for symmetric key cipher algorithms that require such a key exchange. The work factor for breaking Diffie-Hellman is based on the discrete logarithm problem, which is related to the integer factorization problem on which RSA's strength is based. Thus, a 3072-bit Diffie-Hellman key has about the same strength as a 3072-bit RSA key. How to define a Diffie-Hellman key length? According to DH priciple: Y = g^X mod p. Security has always been a major concern for authentication over networking. Cryptographic methods solve the problem of security by implementing various methods for key exchange. Shared key is the major constraint established by Diffie Hellman. Diffie-Hellman has two key sizes: the discrete log key size, and the discreet log group size. These map onto q and p respectively. Reasonable sizes for them, as of 2013, are 224 bits for q and 2048 bits for p. You can use KeyLength to get estimates for various key lifetimes and security margins.

• Diffie-Hellman

How can two people in a crowded room derive a secret that only the pair know, without revealing the secret to anyone else that might be listening?

That is exactly the scenario the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange exists to solve.

The Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange is a means for two parties to jointly establish a shared secret over an unsecure channel, without having any prior knowledge of each other.

They never actually exchange the secret, just some values that both combine which let them attain the same resulting value.

Conceptually, the best way to visualize the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange is with the ubiquitous paint color mixing demonstration. It is worth quickly reviewing it if you are unfamiliar with it.

However, in this article we want to go a step further and actually show you the math in the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange.

DH Math

Before you get into the math of Diffie-Hellman, you will want to have a basic understanding of what a Prime number is, and what the Modulus operation is (aka, remainder division). Both of these terms have been defined in another article.

Below is an infographic outlining all the steps of the Diffie-Hellman exchange between Alice and Bob.

Notice how both Alice and Bob were able to attain the same Shared Secret of 3. Anyone listening in on their DH Key exchange would only know the Public Values, and the starting P and G values. There is no consistent way to combine those numbers (13, 6, 2, 9) to attain 3.

DH Numbers

In our example, we used a Prime number of 13. Since this Prime number is also is used as the Modulus for each calculation, the entire key space for the resulting Shared Secret can only ever be 0-12. The bigger this number, the more difficult a time an attacker will have in brute forcing your shared secret.

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Obviously, we were using very small numbers above to help keep the math relatively simple. True DH exchanges are doing math on numbers which are vastly larger. There are three typical sizes to the numbers in Diffie-Hellman:

The bit-size is a reference to the Prime number. This directly equates to the entire key space of the resulting Shared Secret. To give you an idea of just how large this key space is:

In order to fully write out a 768 bit number, you would need 232 decimal digits.
In order to fully write out a 1024 bit number, you would need 309 decimal digits.
In order to fully write out a 1536 bit number, you would need 463 decimal digits.

Using the Shared Secret

Once the Shared Secret has been attained, it typically becomes used in the calculation to establish a joint Symmetric Encryption key and/or a joint HMAC Key – also known as Session Keys.

But it is important to point out that the Shared Secret itself should not directly be used as the Secret Key. If it were, all you can be assured of is that throughout the secure conversation you are still speaking to the same party that was on the other side of the Diffie-Hellman exchange.

However, you still have no confirmation or assurance as to who the other party is. Just that no one else can all of a sudden pretend to be them in the middle of your secure conversation.

The generation of the actual Session Keys should include the DH Shared Secret, along with some other value that would only be known to the intended other party, like something from the Authentication scheme you chose.

Key generation is the process of generating keys in cryptography. A key is used to encrypt and decrypt whatever data is being encrypted/decrypted.

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A device or program used to generate keys is called a key generator or keygen.

Generation in cryptography[edit]

Modern cryptographic systems include symmetric-key algorithms (such as DES and AES) and public-key algorithms (such as RSA). Symmetric-key algorithms use a single shared key; keeping data secret requires keeping this key secret. Public-key algorithms use a public key and a private key. The public key is made available to anyone (often by means of a digital certificate). A sender encrypts data with the receiver's public key; only the holder of the private key can decrypt this data.

Since public-key algorithms tend to be much slower than symmetric-key algorithms, modern systems such as TLS and SSH use a combination of the two: one party receives the other's public key, and encrypts a small piece of data (either a symmetric key or some data used to generate it). The remainder of the conversation uses a (typically faster) symmetric-key algorithm for encryption.

Computer cryptography uses integers for keys. In some cases keys are randomly generated using a random number generator (RNG) or pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). A PRNG is a computeralgorithm that produces data that appears random under analysis. PRNGs that use system entropy to seed data generally produce better results, since this makes the initial conditions of the PRNG much more difficult for an attacker to guess. Another way to generate randomness is to utilize information outside the system. veracrypt (a disk encryption software) utilizes user mouse movements to generate unique seeds, in which users are encouraged to move their mouse sporadically. In other situations, the key is derived deterministically using a passphrase and a key derivation function.

Many modern protocols are designed to have forward secrecy, which requires generating a fresh new shared key for each session.

Classic cryptosystems invariably generate two identical keys at one end of the communication link and somehow transport one of the keys to the other end of the link.However, it simplifies key management to use Diffie–Hellman key exchange instead.

The simplest method to read encrypted data without actually decrypting it is a brute-force attack—simply attempting every number, up to the maximum length of the key. Therefore, it is important to use a sufficiently long key length; longer keys take exponentially longer to attack, rendering a brute-force attack impractical. Currently, key lengths of 128 bits (for symmetric key algorithms) and 2048 bits (for public-key algorithms) are common.

Generation in physical layer[edit]

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Wireless channels[edit]

A wireless channel is characterized by its two end users. By transmitting pilot signals, these two users can estimate the channel between them and use the channel information to generate a key which is secret only to them.^[1] The common secret key for a group of users can be generated based on the channel of each pair of users.^[2]

Optical fiber[edit]

A key can also be generated by exploiting the phase fluctuation in a fiber link.^{[clarification needed]}

See also[edit]

• Distributed key generation: For some protocols, no party should be in the sole possession of the secret key. Rather, during distributed key generation, every party obtains a share of the key. A threshold of the participating parties need to cooperate to achieve a cryptographic task, such as decrypting a message.

References[edit]

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1. ^Chan Dai Truyen Thai; Jemin Lee; Tony Q. S. Quek (Feb 2016). 'Physical-Layer Secret Key Generation with Colluding Untrusted Relays'. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 15 (2): 1517–1530. doi:10.1109/TWC.2015.2491935.
2. ^Chan Dai Truyen Thai; Jemin Lee; Tony Q. S. Quek (Dec 2015). 'Secret Group Key Generation in Physical Layer for Mesh Topology'. 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). San Diego. pp. 1–6. doi:10.1109/GLOCOM.2015.7417477.

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