RFC 6239

"Suite B Cryptographic Suites for Secure Shell (SSH)", May 2011

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6239.txt
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Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Author:

K. Igoe

Stream:

IETF

Source:

NON WORKING GROUP

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Abstract

This document describes the architecture of a Suite B compliant implementation of the Secure Shell Transport Layer Protocol and the Secure Shell Authentication Protocol. Suite B Secure Shell makes use of the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement, the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA), the Advanced Encryption Standard running in Galois/Counter Mode (AES-GCM), two members of the SHA-2 family of hashes (SHA-256 and SHA-384), and X.509 certificates. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.