RFC 5709 on OSPFv2 HMAC-SHA Cryptographic Authentication

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        RFC 5709

        Title:      OSPFv2 HMAC-SHA Cryptographic Authentication 
        Author:     M. Bhatia, V. Manral,
                    M. Fanto, R. White,
                    M. Barnes, T. Li,
                    R. Atkinson
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       October 2009
        Mailbox:    manav@alcatel-lucent.com, 
                    vishwas@ipinfusion.com, 
                    mfanto@aegisdatasecurity.com,
                    riw@cisco.com, 
                    mjbarnes@cisco.com,
                    tony.li@tony.li, 
                    rja@extremenetworks.com
        Pages:      14
        Characters: 30221
        Updates:    RFC2328

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ospf-hmac-sha-07.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5709.txt

This document describes how the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) Secure Hash Standard family of
algorithms can be used with OSPF version 2's built-in, cryptographic
authentication mechanism.  This updates, but does not supercede,
the cryptographic authentication mechanism specified in RFC 2328.
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This document is a product of the Open Shortest Path First IGP Working Group of the IETF.

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