Diffie Hellman (DH) is a key agreement algorithm describes a means for two parties to agree upon a shared secret over a public network in such a way that the secret will be unavailable to eavesdroppers. The DH algorithm converts the shared secret into an arbitrary amount of keying material. The resulting keying material is used as a symmetric encryption key. Diffie-Hellman is a common asymmetric algorithm, but is used only for key agreement. It is not typically used for data encryption and does not have digital signature capability.
