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How to Generate a Secret Code and Also a Group by Matt Shareshian & Edith Edwards-Mizel ’25

Wed, February 12th, 2025
1:00 pm
- 1:50 pm

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How to Generate a Secret Code and Also a Group by Matt Shareshian & Edith Edwards-Mizel ’25, Wednesday February 12, 1:00 – 1:50pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim, Mathematics Colloquium

Abstract: The Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange was one of the first public key protocols, allowing two people on opposite sides of the world (or classroom) to generate a shared secret key without keeping any other information secret.  The success of this method relies on the existence of a generator for the group F^X_p (where p is an arbitrary prime).  In this talk we will prove the existence of a generator for F^X_p and generate a secret code you can’t figure out in 45 minutes.  Or can you?

 

 

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