The Math Club Ep10 - Key Ideas: Cryptography and the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

If you use the internet, you rely on mathematical algorithms to securely transmit your private data over public networks. In this episode, Noah describes an encryption scheme he made up in high school, which leads to a discussion about how computers securely exchange encryption keys today. It all ends up with Noah getting Pete to put his money where his math is, by accepting an interesting decoding challenge. • Encrypted passage to decode: http://bit.ly/mathclubpodcast-ep10 • Diffie and Hellman’s original paper, “New Directions in Cryptography”: https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf • Bonus content for this episode: https://youtu.be/TJbtzTU7zYs • Find the audio version of our podcast here: https://sites.libsyn.com/410831 • Leave us a voice message: http://speakpipe.com/mathclubpodcast • Find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mathclubpodcast • Email us at: mathclubpodcast@gmail.com