The IESG has approved the following document: - 'PKCS #5: Password-Based Cryptography Specification Version 2.1' (draft-moriarty-pkcs5-v2dot1-04.txt) as Informational RFC
This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Stephen Farrell. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-moriarty-pkcs5-v2dot1/ Technical Summary This document provides recommendations for the implementation of password-based cryptography, covering key derivation functions, encryption schemes, message-authentication schemes, and ASN.1 syntax identifying the techniques. Working Group Summary This is an individual submission being AD sponsored as a republication of PKCS #5 v2.1 [PKCS5_21] from RSA Laboratories' Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) series. By publishing this RFC, change control is transferred to the IETF. 'Document Quality This is a republication of a document from a well-respected and widely implemented series until now maintained by EMC/RSA. Personnel Stephen Farrell is the sponsoring AD. There's no shepherd but this isn't a lost sheep either:-)
