I was doing research on this attack and I am wondering, why is Diffie-Hellman always
associated with such an attack? Aren't other public key cryptography schemes vulnerable
to the same kind of attack? To be more specific, is RSA vulnerable to such an attack?
If so, which versions and how can they be carried out?
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1$\begingroup$ Sure, any scheme that doesn't authenticate at least one party is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack. This works with DH style key exchange and with key transport mechanisms where the attacker just supplies his own public key instead of the real one. $\endgroup$– SEJPMDec 9, 2015 at 20:49
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$\begingroup$ Well i would believe it is often associated with Diffie-Hellman, since DH uses purely the direct communication channel between the users to generate a private key while RSA uses (publicly available) precomputed keys. But as SEJPM said, except for quatum-cryptography, any scheme is vulnerable... $\endgroup$– FleeepDec 10, 2015 at 4:53
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