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		nsajko on May 29, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook's tentacles reach further than people thi... What's the point of encryption if you are going to share the keys via fb? That does not seem better than using a substitution cypher.

ihm on June 8, 2017 [–]

You use Diffie–Hellman. "Diffie–Hellman key exchange method allows two parties that have no prior knowledge of each other to jointly establish a shared secret key over an insecure channel." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie–Hellman_key_exchange)

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