How Credit Card Security Works Online 🔒 | Asymmetric Cryptography Explained

A glimpse into the method used to establish trust over the internet.

The concepts in this video are from the book:

“Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers” by John MacCormick

A link to the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2R19Gh9

More explanation on the subject:

Information sent over the internet is scrambled and encrypted via symmetric cryptography. Establishing trust for whom the information is communicated to is the other part of the challenge. This is where asymmetric cryptography and the concept of a shared secret comes into play. The goal of the paint mixing game is to mimic how two, never before met parties can establish a shared secret while communicating over the wild west of the internet.