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Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP
draft-brown-pgp-pfs-03

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Ian Brown , Ben Laurie
Last updated 2001-10-08
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Abstract

The confidentiality of encrypted data depends on the secrecy of the key needed to decrypt it. If one key is able to decrypt large quantities of data, its compromise will be disastrous. This memo describes three methods for limiting this vulnerability for OpenPGP messages: reducing the lifetime of confidentiality keys; one-time keys; and the additional use of lower-layer security services.

Authors

Ian Brown
Ben Laurie

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