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Re:Introducing the Keybase filesystem by honestlyreally on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:55PM (#14931618)
Is this not the concept of forward secrecy? Crypto can be safe today and broken tomorrow.
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Re:Introducing the Keybase filesystem by cyphar on Friday August 04, 2017 @11:37PM (#14934096)
Not really. PFS is about protecting a long-term key from being broken and then historical communications being uncovered. If you receive a one-off message then it's not materially different to being PFS with just a single message.
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