RFC 7321 on Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation Requirements and Usage Guidance for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)

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        RFC 7321

        Title:      Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation 
                    Requirements and Usage Guidance for 
                    Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and
                    Authentication Header (AH) 
        Author:     D. McGrew, P. Hoffman
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       August 2014
        Mailbox:    mcgrew@cisco.com, 
                    paul.hoffman@vpnc.org
        Pages:      11
        Characters: 25724
        Obsoletes:  RFC 4835

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ipsecme-esp-ah-reqts-10.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7321.txt

This document updates the Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation
Requirements for the Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and
Authentication Header (AH).  It also adds usage guidance to help in
the selection of these algorithms.

ESP and AH protocols make use of various cryptographic algorithms to
provide confidentiality and/or data origin authentication to
protected data communications in the IP Security (IPsec)
architecture.  To ensure interoperability between disparate
implementations, the IPsec standard specifies a set of mandatory-to-
implement algorithms.  This document specifies the current set of
mandatory-to-implement algorithms for ESP and AH, specifies
algorithms that should be implemented because they may be promoted to
mandatory at some future time, and also recommends against the
implementation of some obsolete algorithms.  Usage guidance is also
provided to help the user of ESP and AH best achieve their security
goals through appropriate choices of cryptographic algorithms.

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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