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1st March 2007 - Link Blog

The Beauty Of The Diffie-Hellman Protocol. Some useful explanations here. Diffie-Hellman is used by OpenID to establish a shared secret between the provider and the consumer.

Posted 1st March 2007 at 10:08 pm

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