[Cfrg] request for review of IPsec ESP and AH Usage Guidance

David McGrew <mcgrew@cisco.com> Tue, 02 July 2013 14:31 UTC

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From: David McGrew <mcgrew@cisco.com>
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Cc: Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com>, "wajdi.k.feghali@intel.com" <wajdi.k.feghali@intel.com>, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
Subject: [Cfrg] request for review of IPsec ESP and AH Usage Guidance
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Hello CFRG,

Yaron, Paul, Wajdi, and I are interested in your input on the "Usage
Guidance" section in "Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation
Requirements and Usage Guidance for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
and Authentication Header (AH)".   This is an active standards-track
draft in the IPsec working group, which updates the ESP and AH algorithm
requirements (RFC 4835).  The usage guidance section is new, and it
offers advice on how to use ESP and AH to achieve cryptographic security
goals.  

Quick link:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ipsecme-esp-ah-reqts/?include_text=1

thanks,

David