perfect forward secrecy Last modified: Thursday, May 12, 2005
A key-establishment protocol, used to secure VPN communications. If one encryption key is compromised only data encrypted by that specific key is compromised. For perfect forward secrecy (PFS) to exist the key used to protect transmission of data must not be used to derive any additional keys.
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