[Cryptography] FFS

Tony Arcieri bascule at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 13:45:48 EDT 2015


On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Peter Fairbrother <zenadsl6186 at zen.co.uk>
wrote:

> I propose instead the term Full Forward Secrecy, and the corresponding
> acronym FFS, to describe a system where an OTP is not used, and the secrecy
> is based on some sort of computational complexity, whether real or
> imagined, instead.


djb and friends proposed the term "key erasure":

http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/minimalt-20131031.pdf

I prefer that, as it accurately describes what's happening.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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