Forward Security Question

[Paul Krumviede]

--On Sunday, 18 November, 2001 12:30 -0800 AARG!Anonymous 
<remailer at aarg.net> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have recently been reading about password-based authentication schemes,
> especially EKE and its variants.  The papers I've read on EKE, DH-EKE,
> and  SPEKE all refer to their "perfect forward security," though I have
> been  unable to find a formal definition of this property, or any
> detailed  explanation of what this really means.

rfc 2828 has a discussion of this, but mentions that "this is to be a 
muddled
area."

-paul




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