I try to imagine the size of a prime number that is 2048 bits think about a computers processing , poor thing no wonder we only use asymetric for key exchange. The other thing I was told years is how much it bloats a tcp packet, it can almost clog a network.
I try to imagine the size of a prime number that is 2048 bits think about a computers processing , poor thing no wonder we only use asymetric for key exchange. The other thing I was told years is how much it bloats a tcp packet, it can almost clog a network.
It is hard to imagine this number. It seems sufficient today, but that can change quite easily with Quantum computing!
I remember learning about Diffie-Hellman from Computerphile on YouTube : D
Let’s be honest, most people learn it from Youtube videos in the middle of the night 😂