547K views · Feb 24, 2012 · 5:24 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2012–2016
A short Art of the Problem clip explaining Diffie-Hellman key exchange, using a paint mixing analogy for one-way functions and touching on modular arithmetic and discrete logarithms.
Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as a simple, non-mathematical way to understand key exchange.
“Diffie-Hellman explained to me like I'm 5 using colors.”HN comment, 2016
“I liked this video, which uses a paint mixing analogy to explain the one way functions”
Non-mathematical paint mixing analogy for one-way functions
For non-mathematical explanations I liked this video, which uses a paint mixing analogy to explain the one way functions: this video
“Diffie-Hellman explained to me like I'm 5 using colors.”
Diffie-Hellman explained simply using colors
Diffie-Hellman explained to me like I'm 5 using colors. Public Key Cryptography: Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange ( this video )
Linked in a man-in-the-middle discussion
this video can't just proxy it. the attacker can force his own certificate, but as previously said, ssl ev should solve it by making the user aware something is wrong in the address bar.
