RFC 6920: Naming Things with Hashes

This document defines a set of ways to identify a thing (a digital object in this case) using the output from a hash function. It specifies a new URI scheme…

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Outgoing relationships (22 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 5234: Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF
Normative reference — RFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax
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 4648: The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings
Normative reference — RFC 2818: HTTP Over TLS
Normative reference — RFC 6838: Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures
Normative reference — RFC 4395: Guidelines and Registration Procedures for New URI Schemes
Normative reference — RFC 5785: Defining Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
Informative reference — RFC 5226: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Informative reference — RFC 6151: Updated Security Considerations for the MD5 Message-Digest and the HMAC-MD5 Algorithms
Informative reference — RFC 6698: The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA
Informative reference — RFC 6454: The Web Origin Concept
Informative reference — RFC 3766: Determining Strengths For Public Keys Used For Exchanging Symmetric Keys
Informative reference — RFC 6797: HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
Informative reference — RFC 4843: An IPv6 Prefix for Overlay Routable Cryptographic Hash Identifiers (ORCHID)
Informative reference — RFC 5513: IANA Considerations for Three Letter Acronyms
Informative reference — RFC 4773: Administration of the IANA Special Purpose IPv6 Address Block
Informative reference — RFC 6149: MD2 to Historic Status
Informative reference — RFC 6150: MD4 to Historic Status

Incoming relationships (8 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7252: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9200: Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments Using the OAuth 2.0 Framework (ACE-OAuth)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8884: Research Directions for Using Information-Centric Networking (ICN) in Disaster Scenarios
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9246: URI Signing for Content Delivery Network Interconnection (CDNI)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9770: Notification of Revoked Access Tokens in the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE) Framework
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7945: Information-Centric Networking: Evaluation and Security Considerations
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7476: Information-Centric Networking: Baseline Scenarios
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8763: Deployment Considerations for Information-Centric Networking (ICN)