On Jan 21, 2016, at 10:23 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> worried:
> You have settled into the room and are ready to get on the web, to get to a > Hampton Wi-Fi you have to give the password which is where the article says > the hackers can get to you… > > How do you avoid this with a VPN? It uses the same type of secure negotiation as secure Web sites: Diffie-Hellman key exchange. This is a widely-used method for two computers to securely negotiate a shared private encryption key and protocol. Using D-H, it’s nearly impossible for an outside observer to eavesdrop. It’s a bit too complicated to describe here, but there are many Web sites doing that job.
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