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Re:Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA, but almost no ... by sliverstorm on Monday June 24, 2013 @02:41PM (#5934830)
They don't have to take an active role though if they just sniff all the traffic, right?
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Re:Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA, but almost no ... by cturner on Monday June 24, 2013 @02:52PM (#5934887)
They won't have access to the temporary keypair that the server generates, and which lives only on the server.
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Re:Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA, but almost no ... by tptacek on Monday June 24, 2013 @03:10PM (#5934985)
Yes, they do.
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Re:Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA, but almost no ... by sliverstorm on Monday June 24, 2013 @04:12PM (#5935356)
Whoops. This wouldn't be the first time I got public/private key schemes muddled in my head.
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