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The first part of the protocol – e.g. alice choosing a random secret key and sending it public-key-encrypted to Bob – is in essence the same as the usual RSA key exchange used in SSL/TLS.
As you mentioned, Mallory can't read the key, but can start her own connection to Bob pretending to be Alice, so this part only provides authentication of Bob for Alice, ...
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