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Transport Layer Security (tls)
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Charter
Last Modified: 28-Oct-97
Current Status: Active Working Group
Chair(s):
Win Treese <treese@openmarket.com>
Security Area Director(s):
Jeffrey Schiller <jis@mit.edu>
Security Area Advisor:
Jeffrey Schiller <jis@mit.edu>
Mailing Lists:
General Discussion:ietf-tls@consensus.com
To Subscribe: ietf-tls-request@consensus.com
Archive: http://www.imc.org/ietf-tls/mail-archive
Description of Working Group:
Note: This Working Group is jointly chartered by the Transport Area.
The Transport Area Director: Allison Mankin <mankin@isi.edu>
Several methods of providing a secure and authenticated channel
between hosts on the Internet above the transport layer have appeared.
The objective of this proposed working group is to write standards
track RFC(s) for protocols using the currently available Internet
drafts as a basis. The SSL, PCT and SSH protocols are examples of
mechanisms of establishing a secure channel for general purpose or
special purpose Internet applications running over a reliable
transport, usually TCP.
The TLS working group is a focused effort on providing security
features at the transport layer, rather than general purpose security
and key management mechanisms. The standard track protocol
specification will provide methods for implementing privacy,
authentication, and integrity above the transport layer.
The work currently under way in the area of secure IP is outside the
scope of this working group. Also, general authentication mechanism
discussions are outside the focus of this group. However, best efforts
will be made to utilize as much as possible of the already existing
technologies and methodologies in the IETF and other places to solve
common problems, such as key management.
The group may also produce an informational RFC to describe conventions
for
the interface to a Socket (or transport) layer secure library to build
specific applications as well as TCP port number conventions for running
secure versions of network applications.
Goals and Milestones:
May 96 Agreement on charter and issues in current draft.
Jul 96 Final draft for Secure Transport Layer Protocol ('STLP')
Nov 96 Working group 'Last Call'
Dec 96 Submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
Internet-Drafts:
Posted Revised I-D Title <Filename>
------ ------- ------------------------------------------
Nov 96 Jul 97 <draft-ietf-tls-kerb-cipher-suites-01.txt>
Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to Transport Layer Security
(TLS)
Nov 96 Oct 97 <draft-ietf-tls-protocol-04.txt>
The TLS Protocol Version 1.0
Request For Comments:
None to date.