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		notaddicted on June 18, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dissecting the SSL handshake 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.

baby on June 24, 2012 | [–]

it's also on KhanAcademy: http://www.khanacademy.org/science/brit-cruise/cryptography/...

baby on June 18, 2012 | [–]

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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