Protocol Action: More MODP Diffie-Hellman groups for IKE to Proposed Standard

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Thu, 16 January 2003 18:40 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: More MODP Diffie-Hellman groups for IKE to Proposed Standard
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The IESG has approved "More MODP Diffie-Hellman groups for IKE"
<draft-ietf-ipsec-ike-modp-groups-05.txt> as a Proposed Standard.

The IESG contact persons are Steve Bellovin and Jeff Schiller.

 Technical Summary

	This document defines new MODP groups for the IKE [RFC-2409]
      protocol. It documents the well know and used 1536 bit group 5, 
	and also defines new 2048, 3072, 4096, 6144, and 8192 bit 
	Diffie-Hellman groups. The selection of the primes for theses 
	groups follows the criteria established by Richard Schroeppel as 
	described in [RFC-2412].

 Working Group Summary

       There was working group consensus on this document.

 Protocol Quality

       These documents were reviewed by Jeff Schiller.