IPsec RFCs

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published a number of Requests for Comment (RFCs) that describe the security architecture for the IP layer. All RFCs are copyrighted by the Internet Society. For a link to the RFCs, see http://www.ietf.org/. The following list of RFCs covers the more general IP security references:

• RFC 2411, “IP Security Document Roadmap,” November 1998

• RFC 2401, “Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol,” November 1998

• RFC 2402, “IP Authentication Header,” November 1998

• RFC 2406, “IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP),” November 1998

• RFC 2408, “Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP),” November 1998

• RFC 2407, “The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMP,” November 1998

• RFC 2409, “The Internet Key Exchange (IKE),” November 1998

• RFC 3554, “On the Use of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) with IPsec,” July 2003 [ not implemented in the Solaris 10 release ]