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Mentioning of perfect forward secrecy being removed if we use only ElgamalAES (thanks, welt!).

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@ -287,7 +287,8 @@ using the router's identity to proceed with a station to station agreement, foll
some encrypted protocol specific fields, with all subsequent data encrypted with AES
(as above).
A possible enhancement is to use session tags like we do with
<a href="how_elgamalaes">ElGamalAES+SessionTag</a> to avoid the 2048 bit DH negotiation.
<a href="how_elgamalaes">ElGamalAES+SessionTag</a> to avoid the 2048 bit DH negotiation.
However, this enhancement would remove the 'perfect forward secrecy' DH provides.
<p>
In order to migrate to a more standardized implementation (TLS/SSL or even SSH), the following issues must be addressed:
<p>