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by LPisGood 42 days ago
Diffe-Hellman-Merkel key exchange is vulnerable to attacker-in-the-middle attacks.

Eave could just do key negotiation with Alice and separately do key negotiation with Bob. You have to use a slightly more complicated cryptographic protocol to avoid this issue.

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The only way to avoid this issue is if Alice and Bob can talk out-of-band. There's no protocol that fixes this.
True but the out of band secure channel could just be something like DNS, automated and constantly subject to distributed monitoring for deltas.