Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a simple, non-mathematical way to understand key exchange.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2012 to 2016.
What Hacker News said
Recommends bradford · 2013-04 · on “A non-mathematical explanation of 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]
Recommends zappo2938 · 2016-06 · on “How to Backdoor Diffie-Hellman”
Diffie-Hellman explained to me like I'm 5 using colors. Public Key Cryptography: Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange ( [this video] )
Cites n3x · 2012-06 · on “Ask HN: How do you avoid literally Man-in-the-Middle actack?”
[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.