IT lexicon Security Forward secrecy

Forward secrecy PFS

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Security property: even if the server key later leaks, previously eavesdropped traffic can't be decrypted.

Technically: each session gets a unique short-lived key via Diffie-Hellman. Ephemeral DH = ECDHE. Defence against "harvest now, decrypt later". Required in TLS 1.3 — older TLS versions often lacked PFS.

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