RFC 6943: Issues in Identifier Comparison for Security Purposes

Identifiers such as hostnames, URIs, IP addresses, and email addresses are often used in security contexts to identify security principals and resources. In…

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Outgoing relationships (25 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax
Informative reference — RFC 5280: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile
Informative reference — RFC 1034: Domain names - concepts and facilities
Informative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 5322: Internet Message Format
Informative reference — RFC 1123: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support
Informative reference — RFC 5321: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4949: Internet Security Glossary, Version 2
Informative reference — RFC 6125: Representation and Verification of Domain-Based Application Service Identity within Internet Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) Certificates in the Context of Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Informative reference — RFC 6066: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions: Extension Definitions
Informative reference — RFC 3490: Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)
Informative reference — RFC 5952: A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation
Informative reference — RFC 2277: IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages
Informative reference — RFC 6335: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry
Informative reference — RFC 3492: Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)
Informative reference — RFC 3493: Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 4007: IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 6532: Internationalized Email Headers
Informative reference — RFC 6530: Overview and Framework for Internationalized Email
Informative reference — RFC 4790: Internet Application Protocol Collation Registry
Informative reference — RFC 6055: IAB Thoughts on Encodings for Internationalized Domain Names
Informative reference — RFC 6874: Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Address Literals and Uniform Resource Identifiers
Informative reference — RFC 6885: Stringprep Revision and Problem Statement for the Preparation and Comparison of Internationalized Strings (PRECIS)
Informative reference — RFC 3696: Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names
Informative reference — RFC 6818: Updates to the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile

Incoming relationships (8 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 7530: Network File System (NFS) Version 4 Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8141: Uniform Resource Names (URNs)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8827: WebRTC Security Architecture
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7613: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Usernames and Passwords
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7564: PRECIS Framework: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings in Application Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8265: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Usernames and Passwords
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8264: PRECIS Framework: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings in Application Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7320: URI Design and Ownership