RFC 6403: Suite B Profile of Certificate Management over CMS
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
The United States government has published guidelines for "NSA Suite\0B Cryptography", which defines cryptographic algorithm policy for national security applications. This document specifies a profile of the Certificate Management over CMS (CMC) protocol for managing Suite B X.509 public key certificates. This profile is a refinement of RFCs 5272, 5273, and 5274. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC6403
- Published
- November 2011
- Authors
- L. Zieglar; S. Turner; M. Peck
- Status
- HISTORIC
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 16
- Also known as
- —
Topics
Related documents
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- RFC 8423Reclassification of Suite B Documents to Historic StatusCurrent
July 2018
- RFC 5275CMS Symmetric Key Management and DistributionCurrent
June 2008
- RFC 9646Conveying a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) in a Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning (SZTP) Bootstrapping RequestCurrent
October 2024
- RFC 2797Certificate Management Messages over CMSObsoleted
April 2000
- RFC 4212Alternative Certificate Formats for the Public-Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) Certificate Management ProtocolsCurrent
October 2005
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