Google is stepping up their security game in a big way for the second time this year: introducing a more secure browsing method known as forward secrecy in Gmail and a number of other Web-based services, according to a post on the GoogleOnlineSecurity blog.

In recent months, the Silicon Valley search giant addressed the immediate, implementing secure (HTTPS) browsing by default. Their latest move focuses on long-term data security, putting to rest almost any concerns that hackers could store encrypted communications then use improved technology in the future to crack it and view the contents.

“Forward secrecy requires that the private keys for a connection are not kept in persistent storage” explains Google Security Team member Adam Langley. “An adversary that breaks a single key will no longer be able to decrypt months’ worth of connections; in fact, not even the server operator will be able to retroactively decrypt HTTPS sessions.”

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http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/google-implements-forward-secrecy-112311

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