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Let's Encrypt Announces New-Certificate-Every-6-Days Offering (letsencrypt.org)
submitted 1 month ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm far from an expert on PKI, but isn't the keypair used for the cert used for key exchange? Then in theory, if that key was compromised, it could allow an adversary to be able to capture and decrypt full sessions.

[–] snowfalldreamland@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Im also not an expert but i believe since there Is still an ephemeral DH key exchange happening an attacker needs to actively MITM while having the certificate private key to decrypt the session. Passive capturing wont work

[–] jdw@links.mayhem.academy 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No. Perfect Forward Secrecy (ephemeral keys) prevents this type of replay.

[–] Blackmist 1 points 1 month ago

Although this only was added in TLS1.2 I think. I had to switch it on manually for my server.

I think it's default for TLS1.3.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Time for a dive, thanks.

[–] TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 month ago

Have you read about perfect forward secrecy?