Transport Layer Security (tls)

NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the . It may now be out-of-date.

Last Modified: 2005-02-11

Chair(s):

Win Treese <treese@acm.org>
Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>

Security Area Director(s):

Russell Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu>

Security Area Advisor:

Russell Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>

Technical Advisor(s):

Allison Mankin <mankin@psg.com>

Mailing Lists:

General Discussion: tls@lists.ietf.org
To Subscribe: ietf-tls-request@lists.certicom.com
Archive: http://www.imc.org/ietf-tls/mail-archive

Description of Working Group:

The TLS Working Group was established in 1996 to standardize a
'transport layer' security protocol. The working group began with SSL
version 3.0, and in 1999, RFC 2246, TLS Protocol Version 1.0 was
published as a Proposed Standard. The working group has also published
RFC 2712, Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to Transport Layer
Security (TLS) as a Proposed Standard, and two RFCs on the use of TLS
with HTTP.

The primary purpose of the working group is to advance the TLS
Protocol to Internet Standard. In addition, the working group will
publish documents defining new ciphersuites for use with TLS as
needed.

Goals and Milestones:

Done  Agreement on charter and issues in current draft.
Done  Final draft for Secure Transport Layer Protocol ('STLP')
Done  Working group 'Last Call'
Done  Submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
Feb 01  First revised draft of TLS specification
Jun 01  Submit specification to IESG for consideration as Draft Standard

Internet-Drafts:

  • draft-ietf-tls-ecc-07.txt
  • draft-ietf-tls-camellia-06.txt
  • draft-ietf-tls-srp-08.txt
  • draft-ietf-tls-openpgp-keys-06.txt
  • draft-ietf-tls-rfc2246-bis-09.txt
  • draft-ietf-tls-psk-06.txt
  • draft-ietf-tls-rfc3546bis-00.txt

    Request For Comments:

    RFCStatusTitle
    RFC2246 PS The TLS Protocol Version 1.0
    RFC2712 PS Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to Transport Layer Security (TLS)
    RFC2817 PS Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1
    RFC2818 I HTTP Over TLS
    RFC3268 PS AES Ciphersuites for TLS
    RFC3546 PS Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions
    RFC3749 Standard Transport Layer Security Protocol Compression Methods