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Forward secrecy

In cryptography, forward secrecy (FS), also known as perfect forward secrecy (PFS), is a feature of specific key-agreement protocols that gives assurances that session keys will not be compromised even if long-term secrets used in the session key exchange are compromised, limiting damage. For TLS, the long-term secret is typically the private key of the…

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related to Bibliography · 76
Forward secrecy → Adam, Advances, Anderson, April, August, Back, Boyd, Britta, Canetti, Colin, Computer Science, Cryptology, CS1, Cypherpunks, Dallmeier, Drees, EUROCRYPT, Felix, Forward Secure Asynchronous Messaging, Forward Security
related to Protocols · 17
Forward secrecy → DHE-DSA, DHE-RSA, Diffie, ECDHE-ECDSA, ECDHE-RSA, Forward, Hellman, In, In Transport Layer Security, IPsec, Off-the-Record Messaging, OMEMO, RFC, RSA, SSH, SSLv3, TLS
related to Use · 16
Forward secrecy → As, August, Facebook, February, Gmail, Google, Google Docs, July, May, Since, Since November, STARTTLS, TLS, Twitter, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikis
related to External links · 12
Forward secrecy → Computerworld June, Forward Secrecy SSL Labs, IETF, Intercepted, June, Labs, Netcraft June, NSA, Orman, ProtocolPerfect Forward Secrecy, RFC, The OAKLEY Key Determination
related to Example · 10
Forward secrecy → Alice, Alice's, Bob, Bob's, Diffie, Hellman, Step, The, They, Verification
related to history · 8
Forward secrecy → Forward, Günther, Michael James Wiener, Oorschot, Paul, Station-to-Station, The, Whitfield Diffie
related to Attacks · 6
Forward secrecy → Forward, However, In, Non-interactive, Proactively, This
related to Non-interactive forward secrecy · 6
Forward secrecy → However, Interactivity, Most, RTT, These, This
related to Weak perfect forward secrecy · 4
Forward secrecy → Hugo Krawczyk, This, Weak, Wpfs
related to Definition · 1
Forward secrecy → An

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forward secrecy key keys long-term exchange session adversary past use encryption secret compromise also protocol used compromised protocols private diffie

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Diffieinstance ofVerification establishes with confidence that the claimed owner of a public key is the actual owner.Alice and Bob use a key exchange algorithm0.80text
multi-user functionality in such clientsinstance ofas well as OMEMO which provides additional features0.80text
both provide forward secrecy as well as deniable encryption.In Transport Layer Securityinstance ofas well as OMEMO which provides additional features0.80text
Forward secrecyrelated to AttacksForward0.60section
Forward secrecyrelated to AttacksHowever0.60section
Forward secrecyrelated to AttacksThis0.60section
Forward secrecyrelated to AttacksNon-interactive0.60section
Forward secrecyrelated to AttacksIn0.60section
Forward secrecyrelated to AttacksProactively0.60section
Forward secrecyrelated to BibliographyAnderson0.60section
Forward secrecyrelated to BibliographyRoss0.60section
Forward secrecyrelated to BibliographyTwo Remarks0.60section

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