RFC 3766: Determining Strengths For Public Keys Used For Exchanging Symmetric Keys

Implementors of systems that use public key cryptography to exchange symmetric keys need to make the public keys resistant to some predetermined level of…

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Outgoing relationships (2 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 2409: The Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
Informative reference — RFC 1750: Randomness Recommendations for Security

Incoming relationships (20 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9325: Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4556: Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos (PKINIT)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7696: Guidelines for Cryptographic Algorithm Agility and Selecting Mandatory-to-Implement Algorithms
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5349: Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Support for Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos (PKINIT)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5246: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4086: Randomness Requirements for Security
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5751: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Message Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7516: JSON Web Encryption (JWE)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5247: Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Key Management Framework
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5216: The EAP-TLS Authentication Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6781: DNSSEC Operational Practices, Version 2
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4871: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6920: Naming Things with Hashes
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6518: Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols (KARP) Design Guidelines
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3871: Operational Security Requirements for Large Internet Service Provider (ISP) IP Network Infrastructure
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6256: Using Self-Delimiting Numeric Values in Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8268: More Modular Exponentiation (MODP) Diffie-Hellman (DH) Key Exchange (KEX) Groups for Secure Shell (SSH)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4432: RSA Key Exchange for the Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4746: Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Password Authenticated Exchange
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6331: Moving DIGEST-MD5 to Historic