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The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol
draft-barnes-mls-protocol-01

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (mls WG)
Expired & archived
Authors Richard Barnes , Jon Millican , Emad Omara , Katriel Cohn-Gordon , Raphael Robert
Last updated 2018-08-07 (Latest revision 2018-07-02)
Replaced by draft-ietf-mls-protocol
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Abstract

Messaging applications are increasingly making use of end-to-end security mechanisms to ensure that messages are only accessible to the communicating endpoints, and not to any servers involved in delivering messages. Establishing keys to provide such protections is challenging for group chat settings, in which more than two participants need to agree on a key but may not be online at the same time. In this document, we specify a key establishment protocol that provides efficient asynchronous group key establishment with forward secrecy and post-compromise security for groups in size ranging from two to thousands.

Authors

Richard Barnes
Jon Millican
Emad Omara
Katriel Cohn-Gordon
Raphael Robert

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