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Pre-Shared Key Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
RFC 4279

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Announcement

From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab@iab.org>,
    RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>, 
    tls mailing list <tls@ietf.org>, 
    tls chair <tls-chairs@tools.ietf.org>
Subject: Protocol Action: 'Pre-Shared Key Ciphersuites for 
         Transport Layer Security (TLS)' to Proposed Standard 

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Pre-Shared Key Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS) '
   <draft-ietf-tls-psk-10.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Transport Layer Security Working 
Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Russ Housley and Tim Polk.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-psk-10.txt

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

  This document specifies three sets of new ciphersuites for the
  Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to support authentication
  based on pre-shared symmetric keys.  The first set of ciphersuites
  uses only symmetric key operations for authentication.  The second set
  uses a Diffie-Hellman exchange authenticated with a pre-shared key;
  and the third set combines public key authentication of the server
  with pre-shared key authentication of the client.

Working Group Summary

  The TLS Working Group reached consensus on this document.

Protocol Quality

  This document was reviewed by Russ Housley for the IESG.

RFC Editor Note