RFC 6520

"Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Heartbeat Extension", February 2012

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6520.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Authors:

R. Seggelmann
M. Tuexen
M. Williams

Stream:

IETF

Source:

tls (sec)

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Abstract

This document describes the Heartbeat Extension for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocols. The Heartbeat Extension provides a new protocol for TLS/DTLS allowing the usage of keep-alive functionality without performing a renegotiation and a basis for path MTU (PMTU) discovery for DTLS. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.