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RFC 4535: GSAKMP: Group Secure Association Key Management Protocol

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This document specifies the Group Secure Association Key Management Protocol (GSAKMP). The GSAKMP provides a security framework for creating and managing cryptographic groups on a network. It provides mechanisms to disseminate group policy and authenticate users, rules to perform access control decisions during group establishment and recovery, capabilities to recover from the compromise of group members, delegation of group security functions, and capabilities to destroy the group. It also generates group keys. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Document ID
RFC4535
Published
June 2006
Authors
H. Harney; U. Meth; A. Colegrove; G. Gross
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
sec
Pages
106
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