New IETF RFCs

The Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR) framework defines means of carrying its Personal Assertion Tokens (PASSporTs) either in-band, within the headers of a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) request, or out-of-band, through a service that stores PASSporTs for retrieval by relying parties. This specification defines a way that the out-of-band conveyance of PASSporTs ca...

This document describes a Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Optimized Authentication Mode known as Meticulous Keyed ISAAC Authentication. This mode can be used to authenticate some BFD packets with less CPU time cost than using MD5 or SHA-1 with the trade-off of decreased security. This mechanism cannot be used to signal state changes, but it can be used to maintain a ...

This document describes an experimental optimization to Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Authentication. This optimization enables BFD to scale better when there is a desire to use authentication where applying the same authentication mechanism to every BFD Control Packet may adversely impact performance. This optimization partitions BFD Authentication into a more com...

The advent of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) would render state-of-the-art, traditional public key algorithms deployed today obsolete, as the mathematical assumptions underpinning their security would no longer hold. To address this, protocols and infrastructure must transition to post-quantum algorithms, which are designed to resist both traditional and...

This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of that processing. This is similar to POST requests, but QUERY requests can be automatically repeated or restarted without concern for partial state changes.