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Internet Draft for Modular Key Management



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       Title     : Modular Key Management Protocol (MKMP)
       Author(s) : P. Cheng, J. Garay, A. Herzberg, H. Krawczyk
       Filename  : draft-cheng-modular-ikmp-00.txt, .ps
       Pages     : 22
       Date      : 11/28/1994

This memo describes mechanisms and introduces a protocol for the management
of cryptographic keys as required for the management of security
associations in IPSP and IPv6.  Our key management scheme adheres to a
modular approach, namely, the scheme is separated into two modules:  An
upper module in which a long-lived (``master'') key is exchanged between
the communicating parties, and a lower module, in which the already shared
(master) key is used for the derivation, sharing and/or refreshment of
additional short-lived keys to be used for the cryptographic
transformations applied to the data.  In this draft, we concentrate on the
management module for short-lived keys, and indicate how proposed variants
of public key-based master key exchange protocols can be accommodated in
the upper module.

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