RE: Please Review a Diffie Hellman diagram

["Lubrano di Ciccone, Christophe (DEF)" <diciccone () ppg com>]

You may compare your diagram with the clear description done by Simon Singh in his well known book :
(The Code Book, a history of codes and code breaking from Ancient Egypt to the Internet).
christophe
-----Original Message-----
From: Saqib Ali [mailto:docbook.xml () gmail com] 
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 2:47 AM
To: Stephen J. Smoogen
Cc: Security-Basics (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Please Review a Diffie Hellman diagram

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the response.

> I think that the first thing to do is choose some other Random
> numbers.. they caused some confusion at first about how much info Evil
> Eye had.

Any suggestions for the Xa, Xb, P and G values. I have update these
value in the latest revision of the diagram. see:
http://www.xml-dev.com/blog/index.php?action=viewtopic&id=196

> The second thing I would do is put into the Evil Eye info
> what he knows (assuming he knows the equation being used etc). This
> would show at the end that he doesnt know the secret key but has to
> guess at what either XA or XB is.

This is a good idea. Any suggestion on how to depict this in a diagram?

--
Saqib Ali, CISSP
http://www.xml-dev.com/blog/
"I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the retribution of an Awful Day
(The Day of Resurrection)" Al-Quran 6:15

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