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author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2000-05-18 21:22:50 +0000 |
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committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2000-05-18 21:22:50 +0000 |
commit | 6d52cf2149f8198bbbae8aef9c0e8a009f856b6c (patch) | |
tree | 826da27578f086af5cd026e562e0b9e3bfb49089 /doc | |
parent | 439df5087f012e65b80c13ade8953778cc0b4704 (diff) |
Add a new file where all the standards and other documents that we try
to adhere to are listed. It should be regarded as a complement to
whatever is out on the web, including the docs in http://www.openssl.org/
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/README | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/standards.txt | 101 |
2 files changed, 103 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README index 14469a82e3..6ecc14d994 100644 --- a/doc/README +++ b/doc/README @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ ssl/ssl.pod ......... Documentation of OpenSSL ssl.h+libssl.a openssl.txt ......... Assembled documentation files for OpenSSL [not final] ssleay.txt .......... Assembled documentation of ancestor SSLeay [obsolete] + standards.txt ....... Assembled pointers to standards, RFCs or internet drafts + that are related to OpenSSL. An archive of HTML documents for the SSLeay library is available from http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/ssleay/ diff --git a/doc/standards.txt b/doc/standards.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b451907567 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/standards.txt @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +Standards related to OpenSSL +============================ + +[Please, this is currently a draft. I made a first try at finding + documents that describe parts of what OpenSSL implements. There are + big gaps, and I've most certainly done something wrong. Please + correct whatever is... Also, this note should be removed when this + file is reaching a somewhat correct state. -- Richard Levitte] + + +All pointers in here will be either URL's or blobs of text borrowed +from miscellaneous indexes, like rfc-index.txt (index of RFCs), +1id-index.txt (index of Internet drafts) and the like. + +To find the latest possible RFCs, it's recommended to either browse +ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/ or go to http://www.rfc-editor.org/ and +use the search mechanism found there. +To find the latest possible Internet drafts, it's recommended to +browse ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts/. +To find the latest possible PKCS, it's recommended to browse +http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/pkcs/. + + +Implemented: +------------ + +These are documents that describe things that are implemented in OpenSSL. + +1319 The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm. B. Kaliski. April 1992. + (Format: TXT=25661 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) + +1320 The MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm. R. Rivest. April 1992. (Format: + TXT=32407 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) + +1321 The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm. R. Rivest. April 1992. (Format: + TXT=35222 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) + +2246 The TLS Protocol Version 1.0. T. Dierks, C. Allen. January 1999. + (Format: TXT=170401 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) + +2268 A Description of the RC2(r) Encryption Algorithm. R. Rivest. + January 1998. (Format: TXT=19048 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) + +2314 PKCS 10: Certification Request Syntax Version 1.5. B. Kaliski. + March 1998. (Format: TXT=15814 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) + +2315 PKCS 7: Cryptographic Message Syntax Version 1.5. B. Kaliski. + March 1998. (Format: TXT=69679 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) + +2437 PKCS #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.0. B. Kaliski, + J. Staddon. October 1998. (Format: TXT=73529 bytes) (Obsoletes + RFC2313) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) + +2459 Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL + Profile. R. Housley, W. Ford, W. Polk, D. Solo. January 1999. + (Format: TXT=278438 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) + +PKCS#12: Personal Informatoin Exchange Syntax Standard, version 1.0. + + +Related: +-------- + +These are documents that are close to OpenSSL, for example the +STARTTLS documents. + +2487 SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS. P. Hoffman. + January 1999. (Format: TXT=15120 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) + +2585 Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols: + FTP and HTTP. R. Housley, P. Hoffman. May 1999. (Format: TXT=14813 + bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) + +2595 Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP. C. Newman. June 1999. + (Format: TXT=32440 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) + +2712 Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to Transport Layer Security + (TLS). A. Medvinsky, M. Hur. October 1999. (Format: TXT=13763 bytes) + (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) + +2817 Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1. R. Khare, S. Lawrence. May + 2000. (Format: TXT=27598 bytes) (Updates RFC2616) (Status: PROPOSED + STANDARD) + +2818 HTTP Over TLS. E. Rescorla. May 2000. (Format: TXT=15170 bytes) + (Status: INFORMATIONAL) + + "Securing FTP with TLS", 01/27/2000, <draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-05.txt> + + +To be implemented: +------------------ + +These are documents that describe things that are planed to be +implemented in the hopefully short future. + +2560 X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate + Status Protocol - OCSP. M. Myers, R. Ankney, A. Malpani, S. Galperin, + C. Adams. June 1999. (Format: TXT=43243 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED + STANDARD) + |