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The people worrying about "encryption" really don't have a clue......

So...someone is using Diffie/Helman to share a secret (calculated) key.....

The relevant recipient Diffie/Helman private token (in decimal) is:

62497493988122263062189372246135796760179593487769624489525124369433812824715610

28522809338674919053447005576591203264052083330847174072548819203081587724603282

74105402040709726844340220964169784436592406833401161312023852240872387772743354

748631563155939769527224019871617938057228014416260097227059

The relevant sender Diffie/Helman public token (in decimal) is:

88199782288683123592980515827709755454958926538350917778043205034268472323313124

55634431683134030041472941239446514255408942632459568178772493860827702783265238

57606723755888433011582043621068736086587402909322758328705337090767174716085398

915995079960383294981043067544315955244487369575797118386443

But the shared arithmetic formula is still unknown!

So........secret keys can STILL be:

A) SECRET

B) COMPLETELY UNKNOWN to both sender and recipient (thanks to shared software)

And the actual encryption algorith is still unknown....even if the encrypted message has been read.

...AES, SALSA20, IDEA, BLOWFISH, chacha...or maybe a private book cipher?

How much supercomputer time is needed to decrypt a "Happy Birthday" message?

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