khafra comments on Open Thread, September 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 04 September 2012 06:33:24AM 1 point [-]

I don't think that I understand how this works, which has a meta-level drawback...

Comment author: khafra 04 September 2012 04:36:49PM 3 points [-]

You might have better expository skills than Salutator, and people love learning esoteric things about mysterious professions in the midst of fiction. Diffie-Helman relies on certain properties of math in prime modulus groups, but understanding those properties isn't necessary just to do DH. It only takes primary-school level math abilities to follow the example on Wikipedia (and note that, if nobody has computers, you don't need a 2048 bit modulus.