Funnily enough, this is exactly the way SSL work iirc, and is the point of
it...
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On 14 Dec 2012 21:07, "Peter Collins" <hampshire.lug@???> wrote:
> On 14/12/12 16:53, Benjie Gillam wrote:
> > I think a Diffie-Hellman key exchange would mean even if you surrender
> your passwords/certificates/etc they still can't decode previously captured
> network data. Though I think it only works for "real time" communications
> where the key is destroyed after the communication has completed (e.g.
> SSL), so it'd protect you from man in the middle attacks when sending email
> to a trusted server, but it's not useful for storing said data securely.
> >
>
> If this was true then it would prove that the CDB was useless and anyone
> who was exchanging information of a sensitive nature could do so with
> much hassle.
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