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RFC 7366
Title: Encrypt-then-MAC for Transport Layer Security
(TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
Author: P. Gutmann
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: September 2014
Mailbox: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Pages: 7
Characters: 15775
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-tls-encrypt-then-mac-03.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7366.txt
This document describes a means of negotiating the use of the
encrypt-then-MAC security mechanism in place of the existing MAC-then-
encrypt mechanism in Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport
Layer Security (DTLS). The MAC-then-encrypt mechanism has been the
subject of a number of security vulnerabilities over a period of many
years.
This document is a product of the Transport Layer Security Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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