{"draft":"draft-ietf-msec-ipsec-signatures-06","doc_id":"RFC4359","title":"The Use of RSA\/SHA-1 Signatures within Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)","authors":["B. Weis"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"12","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Multicast Security","abstract":"This memo describes the use of the RSA digital signature algorithm as\r\nan authentication algorithm within the revised IP Encapsulating\r\nSecurity Payload (ESP) as described in RFC 4303 and the revised IP\r\nAuthentication Header (AH) as described in RFC 4302.  The use of a\r\ndigital signature algorithm, such as RSA, provides data origin\r\nauthentication in applications when a secret key method (e.g., HMAC)\r\ndoes not provide this property.  One example is the use of ESP and AH\r\nto authenticate the sender of an IP multicast packet.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"December 2005","keywords":["ip encapsulating security payload","digital signature"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC4359","errata_url":null}