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Re: [TLS] Last Call: <draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-psk-aead-03.txt> (ECDHE_PSK with AES-GCM and AES-CCM Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)) to Proposed Standard

Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> Thu, 18 May 2017 21:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Last Call: <draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-psk-aead-03.txt> (ECDHE_PSK with AES-GCM and AES-CCM Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)) to Proposed Standard
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> On May 18, 2017, at 5:30 PM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't much care, but we've moved to "forward secrecy" in TLS 1.3.

That's increasingly the more appropriate term.  Yes, historically
the word "perfect" was there too, but these days we understand that
it is only as perfect as the ephemeral key-agreement algorithm,
which is vulnerable to cryptanalytic advances.

-- 
	Viktor.

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