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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dragonflymr
May 15, 2017Cirrostratus
Sorry, one last question, I know that I am pain in the... :-)
Why both client and server generate pre-master secret. From description it's never exchanged like in RSA - here it's necessary to allow server generate master key. But for DH seems to be pointless, so why not just generate master key skipping pre-master?
Piotr