The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'PKCS #5: Password-Based Cryptography Specification Version 2.1' <draft-moriarty-pkcs5-v2dot1-01.txt> as Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2016-09-02. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract 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. The recommendations are intended for general application within computer and communications systems, and as such include a fair amount of flexibility. They are particularly intended for the protection of sensitive information such as private keys, as in PKCS #8. It is expected that application standards and implementation profiles based on these specifications may include additional constraints. Other cryptographic techniques based on passwords, such as password- based-key entity authentication and key establishment protocols are outside the scope of this document. Guidelines for the selection of passwords are also outside the scope. This document represents a republication of PKCS #5 v2.1 from RSA Laboratories' Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) series. By publishing this RFC, change control is transferred to the IETF. This document also obsoletes RFC 2898. Noting that in the abstract and some other ID-nits will be fixed during/after IETF last call. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-moriarty-pkcs5-v2dot1/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-moriarty-pkcs5-v2dot1/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
