What about private & Public Keys

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:37 PM,  <Thomas.Hluchnik at netcologne.de> wrote:
> Maybe this subject has already been discussed here.
>
> Given, an attacker succeeds to break into a large number of tornodes and gets a copy of the secret keys from all those nodes. This would increase the chance to decrypt parts of the traffic that goes through the tor network. Am I right?
[snip]

No, Tor uses perfect forward secrecy. The session key for every node
to node link is encrypted with one-time ephemeral keying.
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