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Riffing on Dennis' idea
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martinthomson authored Mar 29, 2024
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special authorization or they might rely on system-level access control to limit
access to these capabilities.

Forward secrecy guarantees provided in TLS 1.3 (see {{Section 1.2 and Appendix
E.1 of ?RFC8446}}) and some modes of TLS 1.2 (such as those in {{Sections 2.2
and 2.4 of ?RFC4492}}) do not hold if key material is recorded. Access to key
material allows an attacker to decrypt data exchanged in any previously logged TLS
connections.

Logging the TLS 1.2 "master" secret provides the recipient of that secret far
greater access to an active connection than TLS 1.3 secrets. In addition to
reading and altering protected messages, the TLS 1.2 "master" secret confers the
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