25 Jan
2021
25 Jan
'21
11:23 p.m.
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 22:25:22 +0000 Lee Clagett <forum@leeclagett.com> wrote:
With forward secrecy, the participants delete older shared-secrets preventing an adversary from recovering deleted messages. Also, cracking the single public-key would allow the recovery of all plaintexts; with forward secrecy the adversary is forced to crack multiple keys. This helps with privacy as the crypto and bit-length ages.
that's for karl. 'forward secrecy' simply adds more key exchanges, but if the key exchange mechanism itself is broken, then foward secrecy...doesn't exist.