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how diffie hellman key exchange works

(with as little math as possible)

Them: Would you like to hear today’s special?

Me: Yes, please.

Them: Today is special.

Physical security and cryptography can learn from each other, part 11367:

Hotels wisely don't put the room number on guest keycards so if someone finds your card, they'd have to exhaustively search the hotel to find the room it opens.

Some hotels now have elevators programmed to only let you call the floor for which your keycard is coded, preventing guests from wandering to other floors.

But it also means the elevator can be used as an efficient oracle to determine the floor of a found key.

"I grant you one wish," the magic fish said.

"To eat my mother's pancakes again, just like when I was a child."

"Are you sure?"

"You think it frivolous?"

"No. But to grant it I must send you back to the child you were, with no adult memories."

"Would my life change?"

"You ask that every time."

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"It's none of my business," the woman said, "but..."

The witch did not roll her eyes.

"...I heard you gave the baker's gal fangs, and claws."

"She asked."

"You've made her a monster!"

"Adding doesn't make you a monster. Removing does."

"Removing what?"

"Someone's right to be who they are."

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