Zero trust course:04: Cryptography Basics: Asymmetric Cryptography

suavehuman

Hi everyone, I noticed a possible inconsistency in the Key Exchange section of the course. The text says:

Two parties could use an algorithm such as the Diffie-Hellman key exchange scheme to agree on a shared secret by separately performing an offline computation involving their private key, and an authentic copy of the other party’s private key.

From my understanding, and as the illustration in the material correctly shows, Diffie-Hellman involves each party using their private key together with the other party’s public key, not the private key.

Could someone confirm if this is just a typo in the text? The diagram seems accurate, but the wording feels misleading.

Thanks for clarifying