The IESG has received a request from the Messaging Layer Security WG (mls) to consider the following document: - 'The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol' <draft-ietf-mls-protocol-17.txt> as Proposed Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the last-c...@ietf.org mailing lists by 2023-01-16. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to i...@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract Messaging applications are increasingly making use of end-to-end security mechanisms to ensure that messages are only accessible to the communicating endpoints, and not to any servers involved in delivering messages. Establishing keys to provide such protections is challenging for group chat settings, in which more than two clients need to agree on a key but may not be online at the same time. In this document, we specify a key establishment protocol that provides efficient asynchronous group key establishment with forward secrecy and post-compromise security for groups in size ranging from two to thousands. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mls-protocol/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/4015/ The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: rfc9180: Hybrid Public Key Encryption (Informational - Internet Research Task Force (IRTF)) _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
