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Re:The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to se... by kniht on Thursday June 13, 2013 @07:16PM (#5877274)
That proposal is for an ephemeral, per gTLD client key and an example of mutual authentication that aims to defeat _active_ attackers (MITM).

Perfect forward secrecy in TLS is a bit different in that the ephemeral diffie-hellman key exchange sets up a shared key that is protected from a _passive_ attacker that observes the TLS encrypted communication and later gets a copy of the server's public key.

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