RFC 5408: Identity-Based Encryption Architecture and Supporting Data Structures

This document describes the security architecture required to implement identity-based encryption, a public-key encryption technology that uses a user's…

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Outgoing relationships (12 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 5246: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2
Normative reference — RFC 5280: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile
Normative reference — RFC 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
Normative reference — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Normative reference — RFC 2818: HTTP Over TLS
Normative reference — RFC 5321: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 3852: Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Normative reference — RFC 2617: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication
Normative reference — RFC 3987: Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)
Normative reference — RFC 5091: Identity-Based Cryptography Standard (IBCS) #1: Supersingular Curve Implementations of the BF and BB1 Cryptosystems
Informative reference — RFC 3882: Configuring BGP to Block Denial-of-Service Attacks
Informative reference — RFC 5409: Using the Boneh-Franklin and Boneh-Boyen Identity-Based Encryption Algorithms with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)

Incoming relationships (2 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 5409: Using the Boneh-Franklin and Boneh-Boyen Identity-Based Encryption Algorithms with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6509: MIKEY-SAKKE: Sakai-Kasahara Key Encryption in Multimedia Internet KEYing (MIKEY)