The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Standard
Pages: 104
Abstract: This document specifies Version 1.2 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The TLS protocol provides communications security over the Internet. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Publication Date: 2008-08-01
Status Note: Proposed Standard
DOI: 10.17487/RFC5246
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5246
Author(s): Tim Dierks
Eric Rescorla
Keyword(s): Authentication, Privacy, TLS

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RFC7685 — RFC7685 EXTERNAL
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RFC7919 — RFC7919 EXTERNAL
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Normative Reference(s)

ISBN.9780471117094 — 7. Menezes A. van Oorshot P. Vanstone S. , Handbook of Applied Cryptography , CRC Press , 1997 . EXTERNAL
ISO 8824-1:2002 (ITU-T X.680) [Withdrawn]
ISO 8825-1:2002 [Withdrawn]
NIST FIPS 180-2 [Withdrawn]
NIST FIPS PUB 186-2 [Withdrawn]
NIST FIPS 197 [Superseded]
NIST.SP.800-67 — 3DES EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 1321 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2104 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
RFC2434 — rfc2434 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 3280 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3447 [Superseded*]

Bibliographic Reference(s)

NIST FIPS 46-3 [Withdrawn]
NIST FIPS 186-3 [Withdrawn]
NIST.SP.800-38C — CCM EXTERNAL
NIST.SP.800-38D — GCM EXTERNAL
R. Rivest, A. Shamir, and L. M. Adleman, "A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems", Communications of the ACM, v. 21, n. 2, Feb 1978, pp. 120-126. EXTERNAL
Bleichenbacher D., "Chosen Ciphertext Attacks against Protocols Based on RSA Encryption Standard PKCS #1" in Advances in Cryptology -- CRYPTO'98, LNCS vol. 1462, pages: 1-12, 1998. EXTERNAL
Hal Finney, "Bleichenbacher's RSA signature forgery based on implementation error", ietf-openpgp@imc.org mailing list, 27 August 2006, http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/ mail-archive/msg14307.html . EXTERNAL
Moeller, B., "Security of CBC Ciphersuites in SSL/TLS: Problems and Countermeasures", http://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt . EXTERNAL
Hickman, Kipp, "The SSL Protocol", Netscape Communications Corp., Feb 9, 1995. EXTERNAL
Canvel, B., Hiltgen, A., Vaudenay, S., and M. Vuagnoux, "Password Interception in a SSL/TLS Channel", Advances in Cryptology -- CRYPTO 2003, LNCS vol. 2729, 2003. EXTERNAL
Klima, V., Pokorny, O., Rosa, T., "Attacking RSA-based Sessions in SSL/TLS", http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/052/ , March 2003. EXTERNAL
Boneh, D., Brumley, D., "Remote timing attacks are practical", USENIX Security Symposium 2003. EXTERNAL
A. Freier, P. Karlton, and P. Kocher, "The SSL 3.0 Protocol", Netscape Communications Corp., Nov 18, 1996. EXTERNAL
Eastlake, D., 3rd, "Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions: Extension Definitions", Work in Progress, February 2008. EXTERNAL
American National Standards Institute, "Public Key Cryptography for the Financial Services Industry: The Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)", ANS X9.62-2005, November 2005. EXTERNAL
Krawczyk, H., "The Order of Encryption and Authentication for Protecting Communications (Or: How Secure is SSL?)", Crypto 2001. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 793 [Superseded*]
RFC1948 — RFC1948 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 2246 [Superseded*]
RFC2785 — SUBGROUP EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 3268 [Superseded*]
RFC3526 — ADDGROUP EXTERNAL
RFC3749 — RFC3749 EXTERNAL
RFC3766 — ORMAN EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 4086 [Active*]
RFC4279 — RFC4279 EXTERNAL
RFC4302 — Ken05b EXTERNAL
RFC4303 — RFC4303 EXTERNAL
RFC4307 — Sch05 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 4346 [Superseded*]
RFC4366 — RFC4366 EXTERNAL
RFC4492 — TLSECC EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 4506 [Active*]
RFC5081 — TLSPGP EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 5116 [Active*]
RSA.PKCS6.v1.5.1993 — PKCS6 EXTERNAL
RSA.PKCS7.v1.5.1993 — PKCS7 EXTERNAL
T-REC-X.501.1993 — X.501 EXTERNAL

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