RFC 3394 · INFORMATIONAL · 2002

Advanced Encryption Standard Key Wrap Algorithm

Overview

RFC 3394, “Advanced Encryption Standard Key Wrap Algorithm”, is an Informational document published in October 2002 by J. Schaad, R. Housley. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

The purpose of this document is to make the AES Key Wrap algorithm conveniently available to the Internet community. The United States of America has adopted AES as the new encryption standard. The AES Key Wrap algorithm will probably be adopted by the USA for encryption of AES keys. The authors took most of the text in this document from the draft AES Key Wrap posted by NIST.

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What “Informational” means

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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