RFC 5926

"Cryptographic Algorithms for the TCP Authentication Option (TCP-AO)", June 2010

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5926.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Authors:

G. Lebovitz
E. Rescorla

Stream:

IETF

Source:

tcpm (tsv)

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Abstract

The TCP Authentication Option (TCP-AO) relies on security algorithms to provide authentication between two end-points. There are many such algorithms available, and two TCP-AO systems cannot interoperate unless they are using the same algorithms. This document specifies the algorithms and attributes that can be used in TCP-AO's current manual keying mechanism and provides the interface for future message authentication codes (MACs). [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.