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RFC 8018
Title: PKCS #5: Password-Based Cryptography Specification
Version 2.1
Author: K. Moriarty, Ed.,
B. Kaliski,
A. Rusch
Status: Informational
Stream: IETF
Date: January 2017
Mailbox: [email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected]
Pages: 40
Characters: 80887
Obsoletes: RFC 2898
I-D Tag: draft-moriarty-pkcs5-v2dot1-04.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8018
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8018
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.
This document represents a republication of PKCS #5 v2.1 from RSA
Laboratories' Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) series. By
publishing this RFC, change control is transferred to the IETF.
This document also obsoletes RFC 2898.
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