Ephemeral key

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A cryptographic key is called ephemeral if it is generated for each execution of a key establishment process.^[1] In some cases ephemeral keys are used more than once, within a single session (e.g., in broadcast applications) where the sender generates only one ephemeral key pair per message and the private key is combined separately with each recipient's public key. Contrast with a static key.

Private (resp. public) ephemeral key agreement keys are the private (resp. public) keys of asymmetric key pairs that are used a single key establishment transaction to establish one or more keys (e.g., key wrapping keys, data encryption keys, or MAC keys) and, optionally, other keying material (e.g., initialization vectors).

• Cryptographic key types
• Session key

• Recommendation for Key Management — Part 1: General, NIST Special Publication 800-57
• NIST Cryptographic Toolkit

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