A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5746 Title: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Renegotiation Indication Extension Author: E. Rescorla, M. Ray, S. Dispensa, N. Oskov Status: Standards Track Date: February 2010 Mailbox: ekr@rtfm.com, marsh@extendedsubset.com, dispensa@phonefactor.com, nasko.oskov@microsoft.com Pages: 15 Characters: 33790 Updates: RFC5246, RFC4366, RFC4347, RFC4346, RFC2246 I-D Tag: draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation-03.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5746.txt Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) renegotiation are vulnerable to an attack in which the attacker forms a TLS connection with the target server, injects content of his choice, and then splices in a new TLS connection from a client. The server treats the client's initial TLS handshake as a renegotiation and thus believes that the initial data transmitted by the attacker is from the same entity as the subsequent client data. This specification defines a TLS extension to cryptographically tie renegotiations to the TLS connections they are being performed over, thus preventing this attack. [STANDARDS TRACK] This document is a product of the Transport Layer Security Working Group of the IETF. This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol. STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the Internet Official Protocol Standards (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce