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- Assume Alice and Bob share a secret KAlice-Bob, what is the security flaw when they use the following protocol for Bob to a

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The medium used is the Internet, and the secret key KAlice-Bob is shared on the unsecured medium Internet. Since Alice is sending the secret key to Bob over the unsecured medium thus the security flaw would be that an attacker or hacker on the medium will be able to intercept the secure key. Thus when Alice and Bob will actually use this security key, it will not be secure since some attacker already has it and knows it. This is the vulnerability here.

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