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<p>In this method, Alice and Bob publicly agree on a shared set of numbers, they then use their private keys and use the public numbers in an algorithm to obtain a “mix” of numbers that they’ll send to one another. Alice and Bob then “mix” the
others mixed numbers to be left with a pair of numbers that no one else can know. Eve would need access to either Bob or Alices private numbers in order to arrive at the new secret from any of the numbers that were shared.</p>
<p>It’s a little hard to understand this way, often a good way of explaining this is with colours. The image below shows a representation for this.</p>
<p>Notice the final colour never goes into the public space. This is the number that would then be used to encrypt messages using a symmetric encryption (similar to our one time pad example). If you’d like to see a video on this, Khan Academy
presents a lesson by <ahref="https://britcruise.com/"rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer"target="_blank">Brit Cruise</a> and does a good job at demonstrating it.</p>
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