IPP> SEC - status of TLS/SSL in IETF specs

[McDonald, Ira]

Hi folks,                                       Tuesday (9 January 2001)


I missed this important RFC last spring (they wrote out TLS in their
document title):

RFC 2830 - LDAP over TLS (May 2000, Proposed Std)
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2830.txt


Current Internet 'standards track' RFCs on TLS:

RFC 2246 - Transport Layer Security (TLS) v1.0 (Jan 1999, Proposed Std)
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2246.txt

RFC 2712 - Kerberos Cipher Suites for TLS (October 1999, Proposed Std)
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2712.txt

RFC 2487 - SMTP over TLS (January 1999, Proposed Std)
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2487.txt

RFC 2595 - IMAP, POP3, and ACAP over TLS (June 1999, Proposed Std)
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2595.txt

RFC 2817 - Upgrading to TLS within HTTP/1.1 (May 2000, Proposed Std)
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2817.txt

RFC 2818 - HTTP over TLS (May 2000, Informational) - for 'https:' URLs
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2818.txt


Current Internet 'work-in-progress' Internet-Drafts on TLS:

- FTP over TLS (19 September 2000)
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-06.txt

- Telnet over TLS (25 October 2000)
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tn3270e-telnet-tls-05.txt

- Wireless Extensions to TLS (27 November 2000)
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-wireless-00.txt

- Revised Kerberos Cipher Suites for TLS (8 November 2000)
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-kerb-00.txt

- AES Ciphersuites for TLS (15 November 2000)
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-ciphersuite-02.txt

  Note: AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is the brand new replacement
  from US NIST for the previous DES (Data Encryption Standard).


Cheers,
- Ira McDonald, consulting architect at Sharp and Xerox
  High North Inc