Public-Key Forward Secrecy
nounid
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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.
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Variants
- acronym
- PFS
- plural
- Public-Key Forward Secrecies
- possessive
- Public-Key Forward Secrecy's
- pluralpossessive
- Public-Key Forward Secrecies'
Framework definitions
- §1
- 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.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- 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.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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