[Pycrypto-checkins] [ pycrypto-Bugs-1041588 ] wishlist: DH key agreement

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Bugs item #1041588, was opened at 2004-10-06 16:26
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Zooko O'Whielacronx (zooko)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: wishlist: DH key agreement

Initial Comment:
I need something that is not encryption nor
authentication, but key agreement.  That is: Alice
generates random x, Bob generates random y, Alice
computes g^x mod p, Bob computes g^y mod p, Alice
(given g^y), computes (g^y)^x.

How can I accomplish this?


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>Comment By: Zooko O'Whielacronx (zooko)
Date: 2004-10-06 16:36

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Well I looked into the source of pycrypto to see what it
would take to add this functionality.  It turns out that the
El Gamal stuff is implemented in 100% Pure Python!  That's
kind of shocking, but at least it answers my question about
how to compute this.  The answer is something that includes
lines like "pow(g, y) % p".  I'll be interested to see how
this performs.


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