draft-riikonen-silc-ke-auth-05.txt

[Pekka R. <pri...@ik...>]

A new Internet Draft defining the SILC Key Exchange and Authentication
Protocols is available, and has been submitted to the IETF.

o SILC Key Exchange and Authentication Protocols

  http://silcnet.org/docs/draft-riikonen-silc-ke-auth-05.txt

  Abstract

   This memo describes two protocols used in the Secure Internet Live
   Conferencing (SILC) protocol, specified in the Secure Internet Live
   Conferencing, Protocol Specification internet-draft [SILC1].  The
   SILC Key Exchange (SKE) protocol provides secure key exchange between
   two parties resulting into shared secret key material.  The protocol
   is based on Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm and its functionality
   is derived from several key exchange protocols.  SKE uses best parts
   of the SSH2 Key Exchange protocol, Station-To-Station (STS) protocol
   and the OAKLEY Key Determination protocol [OAKLEY].

   The SILC Connection Authentication protocol provides user level
   authentication used when creating connections in SILC network.  The
   protocol is transparent to the authentication data which means that it
   can be used to authenticate the user with, for example, passphrase
   (pre-shared-secret) or public key (and certificate).

Changes to previous draft:

o Defined that the security property strings in the Key Exchange
  Start Payload SHOULD be UTF-8 encoded.

o Defined that the passphrase sent in Connection Authentication protocol
  MUST be UTF-8 encoded.

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