Which option describes the purpose of Diffie-Hellman?

Which option describes the purpose of Diffie-Hellman?

Which option describes the purpose of Diffie-Hellman?

A.
used between the initiator and the responder to establish a basic security policy

B.
used to verify the identity of the peer

C.
used for asymmetric public key encryption

D.
used to establish a symmetric shared key via a public key exchange process

Explanation:



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Lonix

Lonix

A and B are vague answers.

C can be true but impractical and probably never used for data encryption (very processor intensive)

D is correct, it is used to safely exchange a shared key which BOTH end of the vpn connection will use to encrypt data (both ~ symmetric)