Summary for Week 6

• Lecture 7: We discussed Diffie-Hellman key exchange and covered man-in-the-middle attack on the protocol. We discussed the discrete-log problem (DLP) and its connection to the Diffie-Hellman key exchange. We also discussed the Elgamal cryptosystem.
  Date: Tu, 10/5/10.
• Instructor was out-of-town on Th, 10/7/10.