[rfc-dist] RFC 5289 on TLS Elliptic Curve Cipher Suites with SHA-256/384 and AES Galois Counter Mode (GCM)

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        RFC 5289

        Title:      TLS Elliptic Curve Cipher Suites 
                    with SHA-256/384 and AES Galois Counter 
                    Mode (GCM) 
        Author:     E. Rescorla
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       August 2008
        Mailbox:    ekr at rtfm.com
        Pages:      6
        Characters: 12195
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tls-ecc-new-mac-07.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5289.txt

RFC 4492 describes elliptic curve cipher suites for Transport Layer
Security (TLS).  However, all those cipher suites use HMAC-SHA-1 as
their Message Authentication Code (MAC) algorithm.  This document
describes sixteen new cipher suites for TLS that specify stronger MAC
algorithms.  Eight use Hashed Message Authentication Code (HMAC) with
SHA-256 or SHA-384, and eight use AES in Galois Counter Mode (GCM).  
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