RFC 5349: Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Support for Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos (PKINIT)
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This document describes the use of Elliptic Curve certificates, Elliptic Curve signature schemes and Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement within the framework of PKINIT -- the Kerberos Version 5 extension that provides for the use of public key cryptography. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC5349
- Published
- September 2008
- Authors
- L. Zhu; K. Jaganathan; K. Lauter
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- sec
- Pages
- 10
- Also known as
- —
Topics
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