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Re: Forward Security Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Krumviede)
Mon Nov 19 00:36:57 2001
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:10:58 -0800
From: Paul Krumviede <pwk@acm.org>
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--On Sunday, 18 November, 2001 12:30 -0800 AARG!Anonymous
<remailer@aarg.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have recently been reading about password-based authentication schemes,
> especially EKE and its variants. The papers I've read on EKE, DH-EKE,
> and SPEKE all refer to their "perfect forward security," though I have
> been unable to find a formal definition of this property, or any
> detailed explanation of what this really means.
rfc 2828 has a discussion of this, but mentions that "this is to be a
muddled
area."
-paul
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