My crypto prof back in university mentioned that the first time he heard about this when it came out, he thought exchanging secrets over insecure channels was impossible so there must be something wrong with this scheme. Maybe they were laughed out the room first because of "secure communications over public channels", haha
It’s mindblowing how mindbowing this must have been at the time.
cryptographers when they heard the first time about DH in 1976
Indeed. They had trouble publishing it too, unless I misremember
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