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Re: Perfect Forward Security def wanted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wei Dai)
Thu May 4 11:31:41 2000
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 07:46:39 -0700
From: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>
To: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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In-Reply-To: <v04210104b5372df3d1e4@[24.218.56.92]>; from reinhold@world.std.com on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:40:14AM -0400
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:40:14AM -0400, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: >
> Can anyone point me to a good definition of "Perfect Forward Security"?
If you mean "Perfect Forward Secrecy", I think it was introduced in
Whitfield Diffie, Paul C. van Oorschot, Michael J. Wiener: Authentication
and Authenticated Key Exchanges. Designs, Codes and Cryptography 2(2):
107-125 (1992).
