DHKeyX

An implementation of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange for Ruby.

This is a fork of: https://rubygems.org/gems/dhkeyexchange for Ruby >= 1.9.2.

INSTALLATION

$[sudo] gem install dhkeyx

OSX 10.7 and higher will get deprecation warnings due to Apples attempt to move away from OpenSSL

USAGE

  require 'dhkeyx'

  #DHKey.new([base], [prime], [private_key])

  bob   = DHKey.new

  alice = DHKey.new(bob.base, bob.prime)

  bob.their_public_key = alice.x
  alice.y              = bob.my_public_key

  bob.shared_key  == alice.k
  => true

  bob.private_key == alice.a
  => false

METHODS => ALIAS

'base=' => 'g='

'prime=' => 'p='

'private_key=' => 'a='

'their_public_key=' => 'y='

---

'base' => 'g'

'prime' => 'p'

'private_key' => 'a'

'my_public_key' => 'x'

'their_public_key' => 'y'

'shared_key' => 'k'