RFC 1984 been elevated to Best Current Practice (BCP). BCP 200 RFC 1984 Title: IAB and IESG Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet Author: IAB, IESG Status: Best Current Practice Stream: IETF Date: August 1996 Mailbox: brian@dxcoms.cern.ch, fred@cisco.com Pages: 5 Characters: 10738 See Also: BCP 200 URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1984 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC1984 The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), the bodies which oversee architecture and standards for the Internet, are concerned by the need for increased protection of international commercial transactions on the Internet, and by the need to offer all Internet users an adequate degree of privacy. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. BCP: This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce https://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/search For downloading RFCs, see https://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