Re: Perfect Forward Security def wanted

[Wei Dai]

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:40:14AM -0400, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:  >
> Can anyone point me to a good definition of "Perfect Forward Security"? 

If you mean "Perfect Forward Secrecy", I think it was introduced in

Whitfield Diffie, Paul C. van Oorschot, Michael J. Wiener: Authentication
and Authenticated Key Exchanges. Designs, Codes and Cryptography 2(2):
107-125 (1992).