{"draft":"draft-williams-on-channel-binding-04","doc_id":"RFC5056","title":"On the Use of Channel Bindings to Secure Channels","authors":["N. Williams"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"23","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"IETF - NON WORKING GROUP","abstract":"The concept of channel binding allows applications to establish that\r\nthe two end-points of a secure channel at one network layer are the\r\nsame as at a higher layer by binding authentication at the higher\r\nlayer to the channel at the lower layer.  This allows applications to\r\ndelegate session protection to lower layers, which has various\r\nperformance benefits.\r\n\r\nThis document discusses and formalizes the concept of channel binding\r\nto secure channels.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"November 2007","keywords":["[--------|p]"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC5056","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc5056"}