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How is the Recipient the Only One Able to Decrypt End to End Encryption? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
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I understand that in end to end encryption the message is encrypted and only the recipient has the key to Decrypt it. How is the key transmitted, and how can the key not get intercepted with the message?

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

No. The wiki article explains it better than I can.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange

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