[rfc-dist] RFC 5746 on Transport Layer Security (TLS) Renegotiation Indication Extension

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        RFC 5746

        Title:      Transport Layer Security (TLS) Renegotiation 
                    Indication Extension 
        Author:     E. Rescorla, M. Ray,
                    S. Dispensa, N. Oskov
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       February 2010
        Mailbox:    ekr at rtfm.com, 
                    marsh at extendedsubset.com, 
                    dispensa at phonefactor.com,  nasko.oskov at microsoft.com
        Pages:      15
        Characters: 33790
        Updates:    RFC5246, RFC4366, RFC4347, RFC4346, RFC2246

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation-03.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5746.txt

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS)
renegotiation are vulnerable to an attack in which the attacker forms
a TLS connection with the target server, injects content of his
choice, and then splices in a new TLS connection from a client.  The
server treats the client's initial TLS handshake as a renegotiation
and thus believes that the initial data transmitted by the attacker is
from the same entity as the subsequent client data.  This
specification defines a TLS extension to cryptographically tie
renegotiations to the TLS connections they are being performed over,
thus preventing this attack.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the Transport Layer Security Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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