Lightboard Lessons: Perfect Forward Secrecy

Perfect Forward Secrecy allows your encrypted communications to stay secure even if a bad guy were to steal the private key of the websever you were communicating with.  But, how is that possible?  A...
Published Apr 25, 2017
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May 15, 2017

Hi,

 

Thanks a lot for explanation. Now it's clear, as mentioned, in video it looked like client is not using his random key to generate value send to server - it was in contrast with what server did, that's why I was a bit confused. Now it's clear that both server and client uses their random numbers (secrets) to generate values that they exchange :-)

 

Thanks again,

 

Piotr