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BEST CURRENT PRACTICE

Author:

R. Housley

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IETF

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NON WORKING GROUP

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Abstract

Many IETF protocols use cryptographic algorithms to provide confidentiality,integrity, authentication, or digital signature. Communicating peers mustsupport a common set of cryptographic algorithms for these mechanisms to workproperly. This memo provides guidelines to ensure that protocols have theability to migrate from one mandatory-to-implement algorithm suite to anotherover time.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.