RFC 8221 on Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation Requirements and Usage Guidance for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)

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        RFC 8221

        Title:      Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation Requirements 
                    and Usage Guidance for Encapsulating Security 
                    Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH) 
        Author:     P. Wouters,
                    D. Migault,
                    J. Mattsson,
                    Y. Nir,
                    T. Kivinen
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       October 2017
        Mailbox:    pwouters@redhat.com, 
                    daniel.migault@ericsson.com, 
                    john.mattsson@ericsson.com,
                    ynir.ietf@gmail.com, 
                    kivinen@iki.fi
        Pages:      15
        Characters: 33610
        Obsoletes:  RFC 7321

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ipsecme-rfc7321bis-06.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8221

        DOI:        10.17487/RFC8221

This document replaces RFC 7321, "Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation        
Requirements and Usage Guidance for Encapsulating Security Payload              
(ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)".  The goal of this document is
to enable ESP and AH to benefit from cryptography that is up to date
while making IPsec interoperable.

This document is a product of the IP Security Maintenance and Extensions Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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