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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Great question Piotr! The short answer of the need to create a pre-master secret is that it provides greater consistency between TLS cipher suites. Here's a thread with a little more info: