RFC 1750: Randomness Recommendations for Security

Choosing random quantities to foil a resourceful and motivated adversary is surprisingly difficult. This paper points out many pitfalls in using traditional…

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Outgoing relationships (7 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 1321: The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 1421: Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I: Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures
Informative reference — RFC 1320: The MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 1422: Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part II: Certificate-Based Key Management
Informative reference — RFC 1423: Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers
Informative reference — RFC 1424: Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part IV: Key Certification and Related Services
Informative reference — RFC 1319: The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm

Incoming relationships (33 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 4086: Randomness Requirements for Security
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3775: Mobility Support in IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4568: Session Description Protocol (SDP) Security Descriptions for Media Streams
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3539: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) Transport Profile
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3957: Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) Registration Keys for Mobile IPv4
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3821: Fibre Channel Over TCP/IP (FCIP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3711: The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3748: Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3851: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Message Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3972: Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3174: US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3370: Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) Algorithms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2002: IP Mobility Support
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2411: IP Security Document Roadmap
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3766: Determining Strengths For Public Keys Used For Exchanging Symmetric Keys
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3041: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3565: Use of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Encryption Algorithm in Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 1948: Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2536: DSA KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (DNS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2405: The ESP DES-CBC Cipher Algorithm With Explicit IV
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3560: Use of the RSAES-OAEP Key Transport Algorithm in Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3369: Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4056: Use of the RSASSA-PSS Signature Algorithm in Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3012: Mobile IPv4 Challenge/Response Extensions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3885: SMTP Service Extension for Message Tracking
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2759: Microsoft PPP CHAP Extensions, Version 2
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2541: DNS Security Operational Considerations
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3075: XML-Signature Syntax and Processing
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3537: Wrapping a Hashed Message Authentication Code (HMAC) key with a Triple-Data Encryption Standard (DES) Key or an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Key
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2777: Publicly Verifiable Nomcom Random Selection
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2951: TELNET Authentication Using KEA and SKIPJACK