IT lexicon Security Diffie-Hellman

Diffie-Hellman DH

Security På svenska → Updated: 2026-05-23

Algorithm for establishing a shared secret over an insecure channel — without ever sending the secret.

Classic match-trick: both compute the same value without revealing their half-contributions. ECDH (elliptic curve) is the modern variant. The basis for forward secrecy in TLS — each session gets a new key, today's leak doesn't reveal old ones.

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