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. 2014 Mar 11;14(3):5004–5040. doi: 10.3390/s140305004

Algorithm 1 Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement.

1: Agree upon domain parameters (p, a, b, G, n, h)
2: Alice:
3: Private key: dAA random integer in range: [1, n − 1]
4: Public key: QAdAG
5: Alice's key pair will be (dA, QA)
6: Send QA to Bob
7: Bob:
8: Private key: dBA random integer in range: [1, n − 1]
9: Public key: QBdBG
10: Bob's key pair will be (dB, QB)
11: Compute (xk, yk) ⇐ dBQA, where xk is the shared key
12: Send QB to Alice
13: Alice:
14: Compute (xk, yk) ⇐ dAQB, where xk is the shared key