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Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Heartbeat Extension
RFC 6520

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2022-02-01
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag, added Verified Errata tag)
2018-12-20
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'This document describes the Heartbeat Extension for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'This document describes the Heartbeat Extension for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocols.

The Heartbeat Extension provides a new protocol for TLS/DTLS allowing the usage of keep-alive functionality without performing a renegotiation and a basis for path MTU (PMTU) discovery for DTLS. [STANDARDS-TRACK]')
2015-10-14
(System) Notify list changed from tls-chairs@ietf.org, draft-ietf-tls-dtls-heartbeat@ietf.org to (None)
2013-02-23
(System) Posted related IPR disclosure: SSH Communications Security Corporation's Statement about IPR related to RFC 6520
2012-02-07
Cindy Morgan State changed to RFC Published from RFC Ed Queue.
2012-02-07
(System) RFC published