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Answer by Peter Green for What is the difference between forward secrecy and...

Forward secrecy is about protecting previous sessions if long-term secrets are later compromised. A random session key does not necessarily provide forward secrecy. An example of this is the...

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Answer by Squeamish Ossifrage for What is the difference between forward...

The term ‘perfect forward secrecy’ is bad. Rather than talking about whether a protocol has perfect forward secrecy, you should talk about when in the protocol you erase keys. Then, although ‘key...

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What is the difference between forward secrecy and key freshness?

Is all random private key that generating a unique session key is both forward secrecy and key freshness?

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