{"draft":"draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-17","doc_id":"RFC8422","title":"Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Versions 1.2 and Earlier","authors":["Y. Nir","S. Josefsson","M. Pegourie-Gonnard"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"34","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Transport Layer Security","abstract":"This document describes key exchange algorithms based on Elliptic\r\nCurve Cryptography (ECC) for the Transport Layer Security (TLS)\r\nprotocol.  In particular, it specifies the use of Ephemeral Elliptic\r\nCurve Diffie-Hellman (ECDHE) key agreement in a TLS handshake and the\r\nuse of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) and\r\nEdwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) as authentication\r\nmechanisms.\r\n\r\nThis document obsoletes RFC 4492.","pub_date":"August 2018","keywords":["ECDSA","EdDSA"],"obsoletes":["RFC4492"],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":["RFC8996"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8422","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc8422"}