Suite B Profile for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
RFC 6460
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RFC - Informational
(January 2012; Errata)
Obsoletes RFC 5430
Was draft-salter-rfc5430bis (individual in sec area)
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| Responsible AD | Sean Turner | ||
| IESG note | Russ Housley is the Document Shepherd. | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Salter
Request for Comments: 6460 National Security Agency
Obsoletes: 5430 R. Housley
Category: Informational Vigil Security
ISSN: 2070-1721 January 2012
Suite B Profile for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Abstract
The United States government has published guidelines for "NSA Suite
B Cryptography" that define cryptographic algorithm policy for
national security applications. This document defines a profile of
Transport Layer Security (TLS) version 1.2 that is fully compliant
with 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/rfc6460.
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Salter & Housley Informational [Page 1]
RFC 6460 Suite B for TLS January 2012
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
2. Conventions Used in This Document ...............................3
3. Suite B Requirements ............................................3
3.1. Minimum Levels of Security (minLOS) for Suite B TLS ........4
3.2. Suite B TLS Authentication .................................5
4. Suite B Compliance and Interoperability Requirements ............5
4.1. Acceptable Curves ..........................................6
4.2. Certificates ...............................................7
4.3. signature_algorithms Extension .............................7
4.4. CertificateRequest Message .................................8
4.5. CertificateVerify Message ..................................8
4.6. ServerKeyExchange Message Signature ........................8
5. Security Considerations .........................................8
6. Acknowledgments .................................................9
7. References ......................................................9
7.1. Normative References .......................................9
7.2. Informative References ....................................10
Annex A. A Transitional Suite B Profile for TLS 1.1 and 1.0 .......11
Annex B. Changes since RFC 5430 ...................................13
1. Introduction
This document specifies the conventions for using National Security
Agency (NSA) Suite B Cryptography [SuiteB] with the Transport Layer
Security (TLS) protocol, and the Datagram Transport Layer Security
(DTLS) protocol.
This document does not define any new cipher suites; instead, it
defines a Suite B compliant profile for use with TLS version 1.2
[RFC5246], DTLS version 1.2 [RFC6347], and the cipher suites defined
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