What protection is provided by IPsec perfect forward secrecy?

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Question:

What protection is provided by IPsec perfect forward secrecy?

  • ensuring that packets are not modified in transit
  • ensuring a compromised session key does not lead to the compromise of future keys
  • providing protection against hackers trying to capture and insert network traffic
  • creating new security keys between endpoints on a specified time interval

Explanation: With perfect forward secrecy each session key is derived independently of the previous key so that a compromise of one key does not mean compromise of future keys.

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