Cryptography: Understanding the math behind the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

Question

I’m trying to really get into the math behind it. I am unsure where to start though. Is this type of math considered theoretical, based in calculus, or something different?

I currently don’t see how all of the public pieces can be seen and know but yet cannot be reversed engineered to figure out k and ‘k.

Is the example used in the cryptography section just a very basic version to help with understanding or does it simple boil down to that.

Any tips and advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I don't know if the content you can audit for free will be sufficient, but I remember DH being approachable in the Cybersecurity track from University of Maryland, here:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptography