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BCP 201
RFC 7696
Title: Guidelines for Cryptographic Algorithm Agility
and Selecting Mandatory-to-Implement Algorithms
Author: R. Housley
Status: Best Current Practice
Stream: IETF
Date: November 2015
Mailbox: housley@vigilsec.com
Pages: 19
Characters: 50543
See Also: BCP 201
I-D Tag: draft-iab-crypto-alg-agility-08.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7696
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7696
Many IETF protocols use cryptographic algorithms to provide
confidentiality, integrity, authentication, or digital signature.
Communicating peers must support a common set of cryptographic algorithms
for these mechanisms to work properly. This memo provides guidelines to
ensure that protocols have the ability to migrate from one mandatory-
to-implement algorithm suite to another over time.
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