Updates to the Cipher Suites in Secure Syslog
draft-ietf-uta-ciphersuites-in-sec-syslog-05

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Updates to the Cipher Suites in Secure Syslog' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-uta-ciphersuites-in-sec-syslog-05.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Updates to the Cipher Suites in Secure Syslog'
  (draft-ietf-uta-ciphersuites-in-sec-syslog-05.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Using TLS in Applications Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Paul Wouters, Francesca Palombini and Deb Cooley.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-uta-ciphersuites-in-sec-syslog/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   The Syslog Working Group published two specifications, namely RFC
   5425 and RFC 6012, for securing the Syslog protocol using TLS and
   DTLS, respectively.

   This document updates the cipher suites in RFC 5425, Transport Layer
   Security (TLS) Transport Mapping for Syslog, and RFC 6012, Datagram
   Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Transport Mapping for Syslog.  It
   also updates the transport protocol in RFC 6012.

Working Group Summary

   The WG consensus represents the concurrence of a few individuals. The document
landed in UTA because it is the catch-all for ‘applications’ that rely on TLS
that no longer have an active WG; this document was directed to UTA through the
SECDISPATCH process.

The only controversy was the common concern raised by some about making an
algorithm that was previously a MUST a MUST NOT. The old MTI was
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, which was the one MTI in TLS 1.2 when it was
published. Instead of MUST NOT it is now a SHOULD NOT.

Document Quality

There are no existing implementations, yet.  This document was created to
ensure future implementations do not perpetuate the use of deprecated
algorithms.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Kent Watsen. The Responsible
   Area Director is Francesca Palombini.

RFC Editor Note