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# IPSEC RFCs and related documents

## The RFCs.tar.gz Distribution File

The Linux FreeS/WAN distribution is available from:

our primary distribution site and various mirror sites. To give people more control over their downloads, the RFCs that define IP security are bundled separately in the file RFCs.tar.gz.

The file you are reading is included in the main distribution and is available on the web site. It describes the RFCs included in the RFCs.tar.gz bundle and gives some pointers to other ways to get them.

## Other sources for RFCs & Internet drafts

### RFCs

RFCs are downloadble at many places around the net such as:

- http://www.rfc-editor.org
- NSF.net
- Sunsite in the UK

browsable in HTML form at others such as:

- landfield.com
- Connected Internet Encyclopedia

and some of them are available in translation:

- French

There is also a published Big Book of IPSEC RFCs.

### Internet Drafts

Internet Drafts, working documents which sometimes evolve into RFCs, are also available.

- Overall reference page
- drafts from the IPSEC working group
- drafts from the IPSRA (IPSEC Remote Access) working group

Note: some of these may be obsolete, replaced by later drafts or by RFCs.

### FIPS standards

Some things used by IPSEC, such as DES and SHA, are defined by US government standards called FIPS. The issuing organisation, NIST , have a FIPS home page .

### Document CDs

At least one vendor sells CD-ROMs of RFCs and Internet Drafts:

- Walnut Creek CDROM

Note: The 2401-2412 group of IPSEC RFCs were issued in late November 1998, and the 2535-2539 group on Secure DNS in March 1999, so an older CD may not be particularly useful if these areas are your main concern.

## What's in the RFCs.tar.gz bundle?

All filenames are of the form rfc*.txt, with the * replaced with the RFC number.

    RFC#        Title

### Overview RFCs

    2401        Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
    2411        IP Security Document Roadmap

### Basic protocols

    2402        IP Authentication Header
    2406        IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)

### Key management

    2367        PF_KEY Key Management API, Version 2
    2407        The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMP
    2408        Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)
    2409        The Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
    2412        The OAKLEY Key Determination Protocol
    2528        Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure

### Details of various things used

    2085        HMAC-MD5 IP Authentication with Replay Prevention
    2104        HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
    2202        Test Cases for HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA-1
    2207        RSVP Extensions for IPSEC Data Flows
    2403        The Use of HMAC-MD5-96 within ESP and AH
    2404        The Use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AH
    2405        The ESP DES-CBC Cipher Algorithm With Explicit IV
    2410        The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec
    2451        The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher Algorithms
    2521        ICMP Security Failures Messages

### Older RFCs which may be referenced

    1321        The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
    1828        IP Authentication using Keyed MD5
    1829        The ESP DES-CBC Transform
    1851        The ESP Triple DES Transform
    1852        IP Authentication using Keyed SHA

### RFCs for secure DNS service, which IPSEC may use

    2137        Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update
    2230        Key Exchange Delegation Record for the DNS
    2535        Domain Name System Security Extensions
    2536        DSA KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (DNS)
    2537        RSA/MD5 KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (DNS)
    2538        Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (DNS)
    2539        Storage of Diffie-Hellman Keys in the Domain Name System (DNS)

### RFCs labelled "experimental"

    2521        ICMP Security Failures Messages
    2522        Photuris: Session-Key Management Protocol
    2523        Photuris: Extended Schemes and Attributes

### Related RFCs

    1750        Randomness Recommendations for Security
    1918        Address Allocation for Private Internets
    1984        IAB and IESG Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet
    2144        The CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm

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