IS-IS Generic Cryptographic Authentication
RFC 5310, “IS-IS Generic Cryptographic Authentication”, is a Proposed Standard document published in February 2009 by M. Bhatia, V. Manral, T. Li, R. Atkinson, R. White, M. Fanto. It has since been updated by RFC 6232, RFC 6233. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document proposes an extension to Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) to allow the use of any cryptographic authentication algorithm in addition to the already-documented authentication schemes, described in the base specification and RFC 5304. IS-IS is specified in International Standards Organization (ISO) 10589, with extensions to support Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) described in RFC 1195.
Although this document has been written specifically for using the Hashed Message Authentication Code (HMAC) construct along with the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) family of cryptographic hash functions, the method described in this document is generic and can be used to extend IS-IS to support any cryptographic hash function in the future. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Proposed Standard” means
An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.
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- RFC 5317 Joint Working Team Report on MPLS Architectural Considerations for a Transport Profile
- RFC 5333 IANA Registration of Enumservices for Internet Calendaring
- RFC 5392 OSPF Extensions in Support of Inter-Autonomous System MPLS and GMPLS Traffic Engineering
- RFC 5403 RPCSEC_GSS Version 2
- RFC 5404 RTP Payload Format for G.719
- RFC 5406 Guidelines for Specifying the Use of IPsec Version 2
- RFC 5408 Identity-Based Encryption Architecture and Supporting Data Structures