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Diffie-Hellman
A method for two parties to agree on a shared secret over a public channel without ever transmitting it.
In Diffie-Hellman key agreement, each side combines its own private value with the other's public value and, thanks to the math, both arrive at the same secret that an eavesdropper cannot reconstruct. This shared secret then seeds the encryption keys for a session. It is foundational to secure connections like TLS. In microZeus it produces the shared secret in the key schedule.
See also
- ECDSA P-256ECDSA signatures using the specific, widely trusted NIST P-256 elliptic curve.
- entropyRaw unpredictability — the fresh randomness that cryptography needs to be secure.