A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6631 Title: Password Authenticated Connection Establishment with the Internet Key Exchange Protocol version 2 (IKEv2) Author: D. Kuegler, Y. Sheffer Status: Experimental Stream: IETF Date: June 2012 Mailbox: dennis.kuegler@bsi.bund.de, yaronf.ietf@gmail.com Pages: 26 Characters: 53353 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-kuegler-ipsecme-pace-ikev2-10.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6631.txt The Internet Key Exchange protocol version 2 (IKEv2) does not allow secure peer authentication when using short credential strings, i.e., passwords. Several proposals have been made to integrate password-authentication protocols into IKE. This document provides an adaptation of Password Authenticated Connection Establishment (PACE) to the setting of IKEv2 and demonstrates the advantages of this integration. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. EXPERIMENTAL: This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. 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