Technical Summary
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.
Working Group Summary
This is an individual submission being AD sponsored as a
republication of PKCS #5 v2.1 [PKCS5_21] from RSA
Laboratories' Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS)
series. By publishing this RFC, change control is transferred
to the IETF.
'Document Quality
This is a republication of a document from a well-respected
and widely implemented series until now maintained by
EMC/RSA.
Personnel
Stephen Farrell is the sponsoring AD. There's no shepherd but
this isn't a lost sheep either:-)