The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The TLS Protocol Version 1.1 ' <draft-ietf-tls-rfc2246-bis-13.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Transport Layer Security Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Russ Housley and Sam Hartman. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-rfc2246-bis-13.txt Technical Summary The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol provides secure communications for connection-oriented data. A large number of network protocols operate over TCP or other connection oriented transports. TLS provides a generic security layer which allows these protocols to treat a connection as an authenticated, confidential channel. TLS 1.0 and it's predecessor SSL are widely deployed. TLS 1.1 is an update to TLS 1.0 which clarifies some issues and fixes some known security problems. Working Group Summary This document is a fairly minor update to TLS 1.0. There are only a few technical changes, and they were fairly noncontroversial. No important unresolved issues were raised in Working Group Last Call. Protocol Quality TLS 1.0 is very widely deployed. GnuTLS claims to support TLS 1.1. Some of the changes in TLS 1.0 (reducing the number of different alert types sent) are implemented in standard TLS 1.0 implementations as well. The remaining changes to make TLS 1.1 (the explicit IV) are very minor and have already been implemented in OpenSSL in the context of DTLS, though not TLS. This document was reviewed by Russ Housley for the IESG. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
