draft-riikonen-silc-spec-09.txt

[Pekka Riikonen]

A new Internet Draft defining the Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC)
Protocol is available, and has been submitted to the IETF.

o Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC), Protocol Specification

   http://silcnet.org/docs/draft-riikonen-silc-spec-09.txt

    Abstract

    This memo describes a Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC)
    protocol which provides secure conferencing services over insecure
    network channel.  SILC provides advanced and feature rich conferencing
    services with security as main design principal.  Strong cryptographic
    methods are used to protect SILC packets inside the SILC network.
    Three other specifications relates very closely to this memo;
    SILC Packet Protocol [SILC2], SILC Key Exchange and Authentication
    Protocols [SILC3] and SILC Commands [SILC4].


Changes to previous draft:

o Added section on UDP/IP connections.

o Added Version (V) identifier to SILC Public Key.  Defined that currently
   SILC Public key version is 2.  Defined how to compute fingerprints of
   SILC public keys.

o Defined that with SILC Public key version 2 keys PKCS #1 is with
   appendix and the hash OID is included in the signature.

o Redefined the CTR counter block and IV.

o Clarified CBC mode and randomized CBC mode texts.

o Clarified MPI integer encoding text.

o Added sha256, hmac-sha256 and hmac-sha256-96.

o Added Appendices C and D.

 	Pekka
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  Pekka Riikonen                                 priikone at silcnet.org
  Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC)       http://silcnet.org/