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20 years ago, Diffie and Hellman conceived the idea of exponential key exchange, now commonly known as Diffie-Hellman key agreement. Today, the long-predicted wide-scale commercial deployment of cryptographic technology is finally occurring. As designers seek to provide implementations of public-key cryptography which offer adequate security while minimizing the computational requirements thereof, various options are available regarding parameter selection and other design choices. We examine a subset of options intended to reduce the computational costs of Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocols, and their related security implications.
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van Oorschot, P.C. (1995). Design choices and security implications in implementing Diffie-Hellman key agreement. In: Boyd, C. (eds) Cryptography and Coding. Cryptography and Coding 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1025. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60693-9_1
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