November 28, 2009

perfect forward secrecy

Last modified: Thursday, May 12, 2005 

A key-establishment protocol, used to secure VPN communications. If one encryption key is compromised only data encrypted by that specific key is compromised. For perfect forward secrecy (PFS) to exist the key used to protect transmission of data must not be used to derive any additional keys.
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The Internet Key Exchange - RFC2409
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.

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