At 6:23 PM -0800 2/4/09, Kyle Hamilton wrote: >There are two states in the NIST key state transition diagram that are >appropriate to this entire concept... "compromised" (state entered >when the private information associated with it -- i.e., the private >key and its passphrase, and has only one possible state transition >from it) and "compromised destroyed" (state entered either from >"compromised", when no information is protected with that key anymore, >or from "destroyed", when no information is protected with that key >and it is later found to have been compromised during its >non-destroyed period). > >Once a key is in compromised state, it can never become uncompromised >again.
Bingo. NIST makes that clear as well. -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
