IETF Working Group on Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Last modified: 29 August 2000
 
 

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Welcome to the home page of the Transport Layer Security working group of the IETF.  TLS is the IETF standardization of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

Mailing List Information

The TLS mailing list is ietf-tls@lists.certicom.com. To subscribe, send a message with the word "subscribe" in the body to ietf-tls-request@lists.certicom.com. The mailing list is archived at http://www.imc.org/ietf-tls/mail-archive. A complete archive is also available as a single file.

About the Working Group

The TLS working group is chaired by Win Treese <treese@openmarket.com>. The Security Area Directors are Jeffrey Schiller <jis@mit.edu> and Marcus Leech <mleech@nortelnetworks.com>

Pending Documents

TLS Extension for SEED and HAS-160

Addition of the Camellia Encryption Algorithm to TLS (see below for a pointer to a description of the Camellia algorithm)

The following Internet Draft is not owned by the working group, but may be relevant to some of the discussion about ciphersuites:

A Description of the Camellia Encryption Algorithm

Completed Documents

The TLS Protocol Version 1.0 (RFC 2246)
Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to Transport Layer Security (TLS) (RFC 2712)
Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2817)
HTTP Over TLS (RFC 2818) 

Discussion Items

Past Meetings

48th IETF, Pittsburgh, PA (1 August 2000)
49th IETF, San Diego, CA
50th IETF: no meeting
51st IETF, London, England



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