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Re: [saag] Perfect Forward Secrecy vs Forward Secrecy

Robert Moskowitz <rgm-sec@htt-consult.com> Wed, 18 March 2020 14:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] Perfect Forward Secrecy vs Forward Secrecy
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On 3/18/20 10:48 AM, Salz, Rich wrote:
> Was the person who asked you to make the change a security person?

A Sec AD.

> Can you ask them for a rationale?

His preference as, "perfection is hard to attain."

> I agree perfect forward secrecy is the term of art and we shouldn't create a new one.
>

Why I feel this ship has sailed.

Lots in English usage I cringe at and just have to accept.

"Ecologize"  really set me off when I first heard it.  My area of study 
for my B.S. in Botany in '72 was Botanical Successional Ecology.

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