Public-Key Forward Secrecy

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

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For a key agreement protocol based on asymmetric cryptography, the property that ensures that a session key derived from a set of long-term public and private keys will not be compromised if one of the private keys is compromised in the future.

MWE

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Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: PFS
plural: Public-Key Forward Secrecies
possessive: Public-Key Forward Secrecy's
pluralpossessive: Public-Key Forward Secrecies'

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