RFC 5709: OSPFv2 HMAC-SHA Cryptographic Authentication
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This document describes how the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Secure Hash Standard family of algorithms can be used with OSPF version 2's built-in, cryptographic authentication mechanism. This updates, but does not supercede, the cryptographic authentication mechanism specified in RFC 2328. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC5709
- Published
- October 2009
- Authors
- M. Bhatia; V. Manral; M. Fanto; R. White; M. Barnes; T. Li; R. Atkinson
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- rtg
- Pages
- 14
- Also known as
- —
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