Diffie-Hellman

Answer the following questions as you would on an exam. These problems are meant to serve as preparation for the exam.

   1) Describe the Diffie-Hellman protocol.
   2) Show how Mallory can conduct a man-in-the-middle attack when Alice and Bob perform the DH protocol from question #1.
   3) What is the recommended key size for the prime modulus p in DH?
   4) Why is the recommended size for p for DH so much larger than the recommended key size for AES?
      (search external sources for answering the last two questions, and cite your source)

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