File formats:

Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Obsoletes:

RFC 2898

Updated by:

RFC 9579

Authors:

K. Moriarty, Ed.
B. Kaliski
A. Rusch

Stream:

IETF

Source:

NON WORKING GROUP

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8018

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Abstract

This document provides recommendations for the implementation of password-based cryptography, covering key derivation functions, encryption schemes, message authentication schemes, and ASN.1 syntax identifying the techniques.

This document represents a republication of PKCS #5 v2.1 from RSA Laboratories' Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) series. By publishing this RFC, change control is transferred to the IETF.

This document also obsoletes RFC 2898.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.