fharding

Key exchange is done for speed (symmetric key crypto is way faster than public key) and forward secrecy. It’s not done because RSA is flawed per se. We use DH instead of e.g. ElGamal encryption for the same reasons.

In cryptology there’s something called CFail, which is a bit like this. https://www.cfail.org/call-for-papers

> Getting young engineers on the platform for free will pay off handsomely when they join a team and automatically assume Github is their code storage tool of choice.

Github student pack was already a thing. https://education.github.com/pack