Protocol Action: The PPP DES Encryption Protocol, Version 2 (DESE-bis) to Proposed Standard
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Subject: Protocol Action: The PPP DES Encryption Protocol, Version 2 (DESE-bis) to Proposed Standard
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'The PPP DES Encryption Protocol, Version 2 (DESE-bis)' <draft-ietf-pppext-des-encrypt-v2-03.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jeffrey Burgan and Thomas Narten. Technical Summary The PPP Encryption Control Protocol (ECP) provides a method to negotiate and utilize encryption protocols over PPP encapsulated links. This document provides specific details for the use of the DES standard for encrypting PPP encapsulated packets. The purpose of this draft is both to show how one specifies the necessary details of a "data" or "bearer" protocol given the context of the generic PPP Encryption Control Protocol, and also to provide at least one commonly-understood means of secure data transmission between PPP implementations. The DES encryption algorithm is a well studied, understood and widely implemented encryption algorithm. The DES cipher was designed for efficient implementation in hardware, and consequently may be relatively expensive to implement in software. However, its pervasiveness makes it seem like a reasonable choice for a "model" encryption protocol. Working Group Summary The Working Group last call produced no issues with this document. Protocol Quality This document has been reviewed by Jeffrey Burgan and Thomas Narten of the IESG.