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content="SILC - Secure Internet Live Conferencing Protocol">
-<meta name="Created" content="Version 1.0 / 04 Aug 2001">
+<meta name="Created" content="Version 1.0 / 03 Aug 2001">
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<font size="6"><b>SILC Protocol White Paper</b></font><br>
-<font size="2">Version 1.0 / 04 Aug 2001</font>
+<font size="2">Version 1.0 / 03 Aug 2001</font>
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<h1>Introduction</h1>
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-<h1>Conclusions</h1>
+<h1>Conclusion</h1>
The Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) protocol is a new generation
chat protocol that provides all the common conferencing services with
- Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS)
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-A property of rekey (or key re-generation) which defines whether the
+A property of rekey (or key regeneration) which defines whether the
new key is derived from the old key. If Perfect Forward Secrecy is
selected the new key is never dependent of the old key which means
that if the old key would get compromised at later time it will not
- Rekey
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-A key re-generation process where the old key has expired or is not
+A key regeneration process where the old key has expired or is not
secure anymore to use. In this case rekey is performed and new key
is generated.
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