TCP-ENO: Encryption Negotiation Option
draft-bittau-tcpinc-tcpeno-02
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| Authors | Andrea Bittau, Dan Boneh , Daniel B. Giffin , Mark J. Handley , David Mazieres , Eric W. Smith | ||
| Last updated | 2015-09-10 | ||
| Replaced by | draft-ietf-tcpinc-tcpeno | ||
| RFC stream | (None) | ||
| Intended RFC status | (None) | ||
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| Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| RFC Editor Note | (None) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | Replaced by draft-ietf-tcpinc-tcpeno | |
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Abstract
Despite growing adoption of TLS [RFC5246], a significant fraction of TCP traffic on the Internet remains unencrypted. The persistence of unencrypted traffic can be attributed to at least two factors. First, some legacy protocols lack a signaling mechanism (such as a "STARTTLS" command) by which to convey support for encryption, making incremental deployment impossible. Second, legacy applications themselves cannot always be upgraded, requiring a way to implement encryption transparently entirely within the transport layer. The TCP Encryption Negotiation Option (TCP-ENO) addresses both of these problems through a new TCP option kind providing out-of-band, fully backward-compatible negotiation of encryption.
Authors
Andrea Bittau
Dan Boneh
Daniel B. Giffin
Mark J. Handley
David Mazieres
Eric W. Smith
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