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by willvarfar 4664 days ago
Presuming the private key for the messages is not on the server, then old messages will not be compromised.

A kind of perfect secrecy for messages.
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fooyc 4664 days ago
No need to do this on the client side then (that was my point)
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willvarfar 4664 days ago
You could do the exact same thing on the server, but that's using server's CPU instead of clients?
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manojlds 4664 days ago
Forward secrecy with https? https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2013/08/05/c...
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willvarfar 4664 days ago
yeah its often called perfect forward secrecy - PFS - too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_forward_secrecy

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