Re: [messaging] libforwardsec: forward secure encryption for email and asynchronous messaging

2015-09-06 Thread Ximin Luo
Thanks for the explanation previously. Let me put it into different terms, which might make it clearer for others. Your scheme decouples these two things: 1. the ability to prevent decryption of messages sent in the past (that were not received) 2. the abliity to prevent re-decryption of

Re: [messaging] libforwardsec: forward secure encryption for email and asynchronous messaging

2015-09-06 Thread Van Gegel
Another approach with proposed scheme: receiver can punctures decryption key regularly with known time-period. So sender can manages PFS himself: send message with "best before" life-time (while receiver still viable and honest of course). This can be useful in some cases.