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Practice item · CISSP · Domain 3

QUESTION 4 OF 30

01:23:47

An attacker captures encrypted traffic between a client and a TLS 1.2 server. Months later, the server's long-term private key is compromised. The attacker can now decrypt the previously captured session.

Which property would have prevented this?

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