Re: [TLS] bikeshed: Forward Security or Secrecy?

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Tue, 01 December 2015 04:23 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 20:22:19 -0800
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Subject: Re: [TLS] bikeshed: Forward Security or Secrecy?
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I have filed issue 353 for this so we don't lose it.

https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/issues/353

Thanks.
-Ekr


On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Hugo Krawczyk <hugo@ee.technion.ac.il>
> wrote:
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>> The more common term is "forward secrecy"
>>
>
> I'd second this. I'm also a fan of Dan Bernstein's recommended term: "key
> erasure"
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> Tony Arcieri
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