RFC 2627 · INFORMATIONAL · 1999

Key Management for Multicast: Issues and Architectures

Overview

RFC 2627, “Key Management for Multicast: Issues and Architectures”, is an Informational document published in June 1999 by D. Wallner, E. Harder, R. Agee. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This report contains a discussion of the difficult problem of key management for multicast communication sessions. It focuses on two main areas of concern with respect to key management, which are, initializing the multicast group with a common net key and rekeying the multicast group. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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