ECDHE

acronym

cryptography

Stands for: Ephemeral Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman

A key-exchange method that gives every session its own throwaway keys, so past traffic stays safe if a long-term key leaks.

Ephemeral Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman (RFC 8422) is the standard forward-secret key exchange in modern TLS. The 'ephemeral' part means the keys exist only for one session, which is what provides forward secrecy; the elliptic-curve part makes it fast with small keys.

Also known as: ecdhe, ECDHE_ECDSA, ECDHE_RSA

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