RFC 8423: Reclassification of Suite B Documents to Historic Status
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This document reclassifies the RFCs related to the United States National Security Agency (NSA) Suite B cryptographic algorithms as Historic, and it discusses the reasons for doing so. This document moves seven Informational RFCs to Historic status: RFCs 5759, 6239, 6318, 6379, 6380, 6403, and 6460. In addition, it moves three obsolete Informational RFCs to Historic status: RFCs 4869, 5008, and 5430.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC8423
- Published
- July 2018
- Authors
- R. Housley; L. Zieglar
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 8
- Also known as
- —
Topics
Related documents
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- RFC 6379Suite B Cryptographic Suites for IPsecCurrent
October 2011
- RFC 4869Suite B Cryptographic Suites for IPsecObsoleted
May 2007
- RFC 6380Suite B Profile for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)Current
October 2011
- RFC 5759Suite B Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) ProfileCurrent
January 2010
- RFC 6954Using the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Brainpool Curves for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)Current
July 2013
- RFC 6403Suite B Profile of Certificate Management over CMSCurrent
November 2011
- RFC 5114Additional Diffie-Hellman Groups for Use with IETF StandardsCurrent
January 2008
- RFC 7836Guidelines on the Cryptographic Algorithms to Accompany the Usage of Standards GOST R 34.10-2012 and GOST R 34.11-2012Current
March 2016
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