Suite B Profile for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
RFC 6380
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RFC - Informational
(October 2011; No errata)
Was draft-burgin-ipsec-suiteb-profile (individual in sec area)
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) K. Burgin
Request for Comments: 6380 National Security Agency
Category: Informational M. Peck
ISSN: 2070-1721 The MITRE Corporation
October 2011
Suite B Profile for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Abstract
The United States Government has published guidelines for "NSA
Suite B Cryptography" dated July, 2005, which defines cryptographic
algorithm policy for national security applications. This document
specifies the conventions for using Suite B cryptography in IP
Security (IPsec).
Since many of the Suite B algorithms are used in other environments,
the majority of the conventions needed for the Suite B
algorithms are already specified in other documents. This document
references the source of these conventions, with some relevant
detail repeated to aid developers who choose to support Suite B.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6380.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................3
2. Conventions Used in This Document ...............................3
3. Suite B Requirements ............................................3
4. Minimum Levels of Security (minLOS) .............................4
4.1. Non-Signature Primitives ...................................4
4.2. Suite B IPsec Cryptographic Suites .........................4
4.3. Suite B IKEv2 Authentication ...............................5
4.4. Digital Signatures and Certificates ........................6
5. Suite B Security Associations (SAs) for IKEv2 and IPsec .........6
6. The Key Exchange Payload in the IKE_SA_INIT Exchange ............7
7. Generating Keying Material for the IKE SA .......................7
8. Additional Requirements .........................................7
9. Security Considerations .........................................8
10. References .....................................................9
10.1. Normative References ......................................9
10.2. Informative References ...................................10
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RFC 6380 Suite B IPsec October 2011
1. Introduction
This document specifies the conventions for using NSA Suite B
Cryptography [SuiteB] in IP Security (IPsec).
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