Reclassification of Suite B Documents to Historic Status
RFC 8423, “Reclassification of Suite B Documents to Historic Status”, is an Informational document published in July 2018 by R. Housley, L. Zieglar. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document reclassifies the RFCs related to the United States National Security Agency (NSA) Suite B cryptographic algorithms as Historic, and it discusses the reasons for doing so. This document moves seven Informational RFCs to Historic status: RFCs 5759, 6239, 6318, 6379, 6380, 6403, and 6460. In addition, it moves three obsolete Informational RFCs to Historic status: RFCs 4869, 5008, and 5430.
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