Merkle's Puzzles
Early public-key cryptosystem / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In cryptography, Merkle's Puzzles is an early construction for a public-key cryptosystem, a protocol devised by Ralph Merkle in 1974 and published in 1978. It allows two parties to agree on a shared secret by exchanging messages, even if they have no secrets in common beforehand.