RFC 8018: PKCS #5: Password-Based Cryptography Specification Version 2.1
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This document provides recommendations for the implementation of password-based cryptography, covering key derivation functions, encryption schemes, message authentication schemes, and ASN.1 syntax identifying the techniques. This document represents a republication of PKCS #5 v2.1 from RSA Laboratories' Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) series. By publishing this RFC, change control is transferred to the IETF. This document also obsoletes RFC 2898.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC8018
- Published
- January 2017
- Authors
- K. Moriarty; B. Kaliski; A. Rusch
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 40
- Also known as
- —
- Obsoletes:
- RFC 2898
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