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by honestlyreally 3241 days ago
Is this not the concept of forward secrecy? Crypto can be safe today and broken tomorrow.
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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.