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Transport Layer Security (tls)

Document Date Status IPR AD/Shepherd
Active Internet-Drafts (10 hits)
36 pages
draft-ietf-tls-extended-key-update-07
Extended Key Update for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3
2025-11-01
I-D Exists
WG Document : Proposed Standard

7 pages 2025-08-29
I-D Exists
WG Document

5 pages
draft-ietf-tls-mldsa-01
Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3
2025-09-26
I-D Exists
WG Document

10 pages
draft-ietf-tls-mlkem-05
ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3
2025-11-02
I-D Exists
WG Document : Informational

17 pages
draft-ietf-tls-pake-00
A Password Authenticated Key Exchange Extension for TLS 1.3
2025-09-04
I-D Exists
WG Document

70 pages
draft-ietf-tls-rfc9147bis-01
The Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Protocol Version 1.3
2025-10-20
I-D Exists
WG Document

9 pages
draft-ietf-tls-super-jumbo-record-limit-02
Large Record Sizes for TLS and DTLS with Reduced Overhead
2025-11-03
I-D Exists
Waiting for WG Chair Go-Ahead

Sean Turner
9 pages
draft-ietf-tls-tlsflags-16
A Flags Extension for TLS 1.3
2025-09-14
I-D Exists
Waiting for Implementation : Proposed Standard
Nov 2020

Sean Turner
29 pages
draft-ietf-tls-trust-anchor-ids-02
TLS Trust Anchor Identifiers
2025-09-15
I-D Exists
WG Document

21 pages
draft-ietf-tls-wkech-11
A well-known URI for publishing service parameters
2025-11-03
I-D Exists
Waiting for Implementation
Reviews: dnsdir Early opsdir Early artart Early

Active with the IESG Internet-Drafts (12 hits)
16 pages
draft-ietf-tls-8773bis-13
TLS 1.3 Extension for Using Certificates with an External Pre-Shared Key
2025-09-05
RFC Ed Queue : EDIT 109
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
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Paul Wouters
Joseph A. Salowey
23 pages
draft-ietf-tls-deprecate-obsolete-kex-07
Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in (D)TLS 1.2
2025-11-13
IESG Evaluation 38
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
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Action Holder: Paul Wouters 40
Paul Wouters
Joseph A. Salowey
23 pages
draft-ietf-tls-dtls-rrc-20
Return Routability Check for DTLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.3
2025-07-14
RFC Ed Queue : EDIT 133
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
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Paul Wouters
Sean Turner
11 pages
draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem-03
Post-quantum hybrid ECDHE-MLKEM Key Agreement for TLSv1.3
2025-11-21
Publication Requested 29
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
Action Holder: Paul Wouters 29
Paul Wouters
Joseph A. Salowey
53 pages
draft-ietf-tls-esni-25
TLS Encrypted Client Hello
2025-06-14
RFC Ed Queue : AUTH48 AUTH48 166
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
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Mar 2021
Paul Wouters
Joseph A. Salowey
23 pages
draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design-16
Hybrid key exchange in TLS 1.3
2025-09-07
RFC Ed Queue : EDIT 95
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Informational
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Paul Wouters
Joseph A. Salowey
15 pages
draft-ietf-tls-keylogfile-05
The SSLKEYLOGFILE Format for TLS
2025-06-09
RFC Ed Queue : AUTH48 AUTH48 194
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Informational
Reviews: opsdir IETF Last Call genart IETF Last Call
Paul Wouters
Sean Turner
161 pages
draft-ietf-tls-rfc8446bis-14
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3
2025-09-13
RFC Ed Queue : AUTH48 AUTH48 133
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
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Paul Wouters
Sean Turner
17 pages
draft-ietf-tls-rfc8447bis-15
IANA Registry Updates for TLS and DTLS
2025-07-21
RFC Ed Queue : AUTH48-DONE 189
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
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Paul Wouters
Deirdre Connolly
10 pages
draft-ietf-tls-svcb-ech-08
Bootstrapping TLS Encrypted ClientHello with DNS Service Bindings
2025-06-16
RFC Ed Queue : AUTH48 AUTH48 189
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
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Paul Wouters
Sean Turner
6 pages
draft-ietf-tls-tls12-frozen-08
TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze
2025-04-03
RFC Ed Queue : EDIT 187
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
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Paul Wouters
Sean Turner
7 pages
draft-ietf-tls-tls13-pkcs1-07
Legacy RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 codepoints for TLS 1.3
2025-12-02
RFC Ed Queue : EDIT
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
Review: secdir IETF Last Call
Paul Wouters
Sean Turner
Expired Internet-Drafts (25 hits)
3 pages
draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites-01
56-bit Export Cipher Suites For TLS
2001-07-25
Expired
WG Document

11 pages
draft-ietf-tls-ac509prof-00
An Internet AttributeCertificate Profile for Authorization
1998-09-22
Expired
WG Document

11 pages
draft-ietf-tls-attr-cert-01
TLS extensions for AttributeCertificate based authorization
1998-09-22
Expired
WG Document

21 pages
draft-ietf-tls-cert-abridge-02
Abridged Compression for WebPKI Certificates
2024-09-16
Expired
WG Document

6 pages
draft-ietf-tls-cross-sni-resumption-02
Transport Layer Security (TLS) Resumption across Server Names
2021-12-05
Expired
Waiting for Implementation

Christopher A. Wood
26 pages
draft-ietf-tls-ctls-10
Compact TLS 1.3
2024-04-17
Expired
WG Document

Christopher A. Wood
10 pages
draft-ietf-tls-ctr-01
AES Counter Mode Cipher Suites for TLS and DTLS
2006-06-16
Expired
WG Document

11 pages
draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01
Curve25519 and Curve448 for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
2015-07-06
Expired
WG Document

Joseph A. Salowey
10 pages
draft-ietf-tls-delegation-01
TLS Delegation Protocol
2001-07-12
Expired
WG Document

4 pages
draft-ietf-tls-emailaddr-00
Update to Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions
2003-11-24
Expired
WG Document

30 pages
draft-ietf-tls-interoperability-00
Clientside interoperability experiences for the SSL and TLS protocols
2006-10-18
Expired
WG Document

draft-ietf-tls-kerb-01
Kerberos Cipher Suites in Transport Layer Security (TLS)
2001-11-08
Expired
WG Document

3 pages
draft-ietf-tls-misty1-01
Addition of MISTY1 to TLS
2001-03-05
Expired
WG Document

15 pages
draft-ietf-tls-ntru-00
NTRU Cipher Suites for TLS
2001-07-06
Expired
WG Document

4 pages
draft-ietf-tls-openpgp-02
Extensions to TLS for OpenPGP keys
2002-02-19
Expired
WG Document

5 pages
draft-ietf-tls-passauth-00
Addition of Shared Key Authentication to Transport Layer Security (TLS)
1996-11-22
Expired
WG Document

50 pages
draft-ietf-tls-pathsec-00
TLS Pathsec Protocol
2001-10-01
Expired
WG Document

4 pages
draft-ietf-tls-seedhas-00
TLS Extension for SEED and HAS-160
2000-07-14
Expired
WG Document

7 pages
draft-ietf-tls-semistatic-dh-01
Semi-Static Diffie-Hellman Key Establishment for TLS 1.3
2020-03-07
Expired
WG Document
Jul 2021

6 pages
draft-ietf-tls-sharedkeys-02
Use of Shared Keys in the TLS Protocol
2003-10-24
Expired
WG Document

12 pages
draft-ietf-tls-snip-02
Secure Negotiation of Incompatible Protocols in TLS
2022-06-30
Expired
WG Document

19 pages
draft-ietf-tls-ssh-00
SSH Transport Layer Protocol
1996-06-14
Expired
WG Document

4 pages
draft-ietf-tls-ssl-mods-00
Modifications to the SSL protocol for TLS
1996-11-27
Expired
WG Document

63 pages
draft-ietf-tls-ssl-version3-00
The SSL Protocol Version 3.0
1996-11-21
Expired
WG Document

13 pages
draft-ietf-tls-wireless-00
Wireless Extensions to TLS
2000-11-21
Expired
WG Document

Replaced Internet-Draft (1 hit)
7 pages
draft-davidben-tls13-pkcs1-01
Legacy RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 codepoints for TLS 1.3
2023-10-17
Replaced by draft-ietf-tls-tls13-pkcs1
Adopted by a WG

RFCs (59 hits)
80 pages
RFC 2246
The TLS Protocol Version 1.0 Errata
1999-01
Historic RFC
Obsoleted by rfc4346
Updated by rfc3546, rfc5746, rfc6176, rfc7465, rfc7507, rfc7919
2
7 pages
RFC 2712
Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to Transport Layer Security (TLS) Errata
1999-10
Proposed Standard RFC

13 pages
RFC 2817
Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1 Errata
2000-05
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc7230, rfc7231

7 pages
RFC 2818
HTTP Over TLS Errata
2000-05
Informational RFC
Obsoleted by rfc9110
Updated by rfc5785, rfc7230

7 pages
RFC 3268
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
2002-07
Proposed Standard RFC
Obsoleted by rfc5246

29 pages
RFC 3546
Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions
2003-06
Proposed Standard RFC
Obsoleted by rfc4366
Steven M. Bellovin
8 pages
RFC 3749
Transport Layer Security Protocol Compression Methods
2004-05
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc8447, rfc8996
Steven M. Bellovin
7 pages
RFC 4132
Addition of Camellia Cipher Suites to Transport Layer Security (TLS)
2005-07
Proposed Standard RFC
Obsoleted by rfc5932
Russ Housley
15 pages
RFC 4279
Pre-Shared Key Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
2005-12
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc8996
Russ Housley
87 pages
RFC 4346
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.1 Errata
2006-04
Historic RFC
Obsoleted by rfc5246
Updated by rfc4366, rfc4680, rfc4681, rfc5746, rfc6176, rfc7465, rfc7507, rfc7919
5 Russ Housley
30 pages
RFC 4366
Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions
2006-04
Proposed Standard RFC
Obsoleted by rfc5246, rfc6066
Updated by rfc5746
3 Russ Housley
35 pages
RFC 4492
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Errata
2006-05
Informational RFC
Obsoleted by rfc8422
Updated by rfc5246, rfc7027, rfc7919
5 Russ Housley
5 pages
RFC 4785
Pre-Shared Key (PSK) Ciphersuites with NULL Encryption for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
2007-01
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc8996
Russ Housley
24 pages
RFC 5054
Using the Secure Remote Password (SRP) Protocol for TLS Authentication Errata
2007-11
Informational RFC
Updated by rfc8996
Tim Polk
8 pages
RFC 5081
Using OpenPGP Keys for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Authentication
2007-11
Experimental RFC
Obsoleted by rfc6091
Russ Housley
104 pages
RFC 5246
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2 Errata
2008-08
Proposed Standard RFC
Obsoleted by rfc8446
Updated by rfc5746, rfc5878, rfc6176, rfc7465, rfc7507, rfc7568, rfc7627, rfc7685, rfc7905, rfc7919, rfc8447, rfc9155
5 Tim Polk
8 pages
RFC 5288
AES Galois Counter Mode (GCM) Cipher Suites for TLS Errata
2008-08
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc9325
Pasi Eronen
6 pages
RFC 5289
TLS Elliptic Curve Cipher Suites with SHA-256/384 and AES Galois Counter Mode (GCM)
2008-08
Proposed Standard RFC
4 Pasi Eronen
4 pages
RFC 5469
DES and IDEA Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
2009-02
Historic RFC
Obsoleted by rfc8996
Tim Polk
7 pages
RFC 5487
Pre-Shared Key Cipher Suites for TLS with SHA-256/384 and AES Galois Counter Mode
2009-03
Proposed Standard RFC
Pasi Eronen
7 pages
RFC 5489
ECDHE_PSK Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
2009-03
Informational RFC
Pasi Eronen
7 pages
RFC 5705
Keying Material Exporters for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Errata
2010-03
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc8446, rfc8447
Pasi Eronen
15 pages
RFC 5746
Transport Layer Security (TLS) Renegotiation Indication Extension
2010-02
Proposed Standard RFC
Pasi Eronen
25 pages
RFC 6066
Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions: Extension Definitions Errata
2011-01
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc8446, rfc8449, rfc9325
3 Sean Turner
4 pages
RFC 6176
Prohibiting Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Version 2.0 Errata
2011-03
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc8996
Alexey Melnikov
32 pages
RFC 6347
Datagram Transport Layer Security Version 1.2 Errata
2012-01
Proposed Standard RFC
Obsoleted by rfc9147
Updated by rfc7507, rfc7905, rfc8996, rfc9146
3 Sean Turner
9 pages
RFC 6520
Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Heartbeat Extension Errata
2012-02
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc8447
1 Sean Turner
10 pages
RFC 6961
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Multiple Certificate Status Request Extension Errata
2013-06
Proposed Standard RFC
Obsoleted by rfc8446
Sean Turner
18 pages
RFC 7250
Using Raw Public Keys in Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Errata
2014-06
Proposed Standard RFC
Sean Turner
9 pages
RFC 7301
Transport Layer Security (TLS) Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation Extension
2014-07
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc8447
Stephen Farrell
7 pages
RFC 7366
Encrypt-then-MAC for Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Errata
2014-09
Proposed Standard RFC
Stephen Farrell
6 pages
RFC 7465
Prohibiting RC4 Cipher Suites
2015-02
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc8996
Stephen Farrell
8 pages
RFC 7507
TLS Fallback Signaling Cipher Suite Value (SCSV) for Preventing Protocol Downgrade Attacks
2015-04
Proposed Standard RFC
Obsoleted by rfc8996
Stephen Farrell
7 pages
RFC 7568
Deprecating Secure Sockets Layer Version 3.0 Errata
2015-06
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc8996
Stephen Farrell
15 pages
RFC 7627
Transport Layer Security (TLS) Session Hash and Extended Master Secret Extension
2015-09
Proposed Standard RFC
Stephen Farrell
4 pages
RFC 7685
A Transport Layer Security (TLS) ClientHello Padding Extension
2015-10
Proposed Standard RFC
Stephen Farrell
8 pages
RFC 7905
ChaCha20-Poly1305 Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Errata
2016-06
Proposed Standard RFC
Stephen Farrell
11 pages
RFC 7918
Transport Layer Security (TLS) False Start
2016-08
Informational RFC
Stephen Farrell
29 pages
RFC 7919
Negotiated Finite Field Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral Parameters for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Errata
2016-08
Proposed Standard RFC
Stephen Farrell
19 pages
RFC 7924
Transport Layer Security (TLS) Cached Information Extension
2016-07
Proposed Standard RFC
Stephen Farrell
34 pages
RFC 8422
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Versions 1.2 and Earlier Errata
2018-08
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc8996
5 Kathleen Moriarty
7 pages
RFC 8442
ECDHE_PSK with AES-GCM and AES-CCM Cipher Suites for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
2018-09
Proposed Standard RFC
Benjamin Kaduk
160 pages
RFC 8446
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3 Errata
2018-08
Proposed Standard RFC
6 Kathleen Moriarty
20 pages
RFC 8447
IANA Registry Updates for TLS and DTLS Errata
2018-08
Proposed Standard RFC
Benjamin Kaduk
68 pages
RFC 8448
Example Handshake Traces for TLS 1.3 Errata
2019-01
Informational RFC
Benjamin Kaduk
8 pages
RFC 8449
Record Size Limit Extension for TLS
2018-08
Proposed Standard RFC
Benjamin Kaduk
12 pages
RFC 8701
Applying Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility (GREASE) to TLS Extensibility
2020-01
Informational RFC
Benjamin Kaduk
13 pages
RFC 8744
Issues and Requirements for Server Name Identification (SNI) Encryption in TLS
2020-07
Informational RFC
Benjamin Kaduk
11 pages
RFC 8773
TLS 1.3 Extension for Certificate-Based Authentication with an External Pre-Shared Key Errata
2020-03
Experimental RFC
Benjamin Kaduk
8 pages
RFC 8879
TLS Certificate Compression
2020-12
Proposed Standard RFC
Benjamin Kaduk
18 pages
RFC 8996
Deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 Errata
2021-03
Best Current Practice RFC
Part of BCP 195
Benjamin Kaduk
14 pages
RFC 9146
Connection Identifier for DTLS 1.2
2022-03
Proposed Standard RFC
Benjamin Kaduk
61 pages
RFC 9147
The Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Protocol Version 1.3 Errata
2022-04
Proposed Standard RFC
3 Benjamin Kaduk
8 pages
RFC 9149
TLS Ticket Requests
2022-04
Proposed Standard RFC
Benjamin Kaduk
5 pages
RFC 9155
Deprecating MD5 and SHA-1 Signature Hashes in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
2021-12
Proposed Standard RFC
Roman Danyliw
13 pages
RFC 9257
Guidance for External Pre-Shared Key (PSK) Usage in TLS Errata
2022-07
Informational RFC
Benjamin Kaduk
11 pages
RFC 9258
Importing External Pre-Shared Keys (PSKs) for TLS 1.3
2022-07
Proposed Standard RFC
Roman Danyliw
14 pages
RFC 9261
Exported Authenticators in TLS
2022-07
Proposed Standard RFC
Paul Wouters
17 pages
RFC 9345
Delegated Credentials for TLS and DTLS
2023-07
Proposed Standard RFC
Paul Wouters
Related Internet-Drafts and RFCs (21 hits)
81 pages 2025-12-01
I-D Exists

10 pages
draft-denis-tls-aegis-05
AEGIS-based Cipher Suites for TLS 1.3, DTLS 1.3 and QUIC
2025-11-12
I-D Exists

6 pages
draft-farrell-tls-pqg-04
Post-Quantum Guidance for current deployments of IETF protocols.
2025-12-01
I-D Exists

11 pages
draft-guo-tls-exported-pake-00
PAKE Extension for TLS Exported Authenticator
2025-10-19
I-D Exists

21 pages
draft-gutmann-tls-lts-16
TLS 1.2 Update for Long-term Support (LTS)
2025-08-17
I-D Exists
Response to Review Needed : Informational

44 pages
draft-mcmillion-tls-transparency-revocation-00
Reliable Transparency and Revocation Mechanisms
2025-06-29
Expires soon
I-D Exists

11 pages
draft-reddy-tls-composite-mldsa-05
Use of Composite ML-DSA in TLS 1.3
2025-07-04
Expires soon
I-D Exists

11 pages
draft-reddy-tls-slhdsa-02
Use of SLH-DSA in TLS 1.3
2025-11-17
I-D Exists
In ISE Review

14 pages
draft-rosomakho-tls-cert-update-01
Certificate Update in TLS 1.3
2025-12-21
New
I-D Exists

7 pages
draft-rosomakho-tls-wimse-cert-hint-00
Workload Identifier Scope Hint for TLS ClientHello
2025-07-07
I-D Exists

9 pages
draft-sheffer-tls-pqc-continuity-00
PQC Continuity: Downgrade Protection for TLS Servers Migrating to PQC
2025-10-18
I-D Exists

7 pages 2025-07-01
Expires soon
I-D Exists

23 pages
draft-sullivan-tls-signed-ech-updates-00
Authenticated ECH Config Distribution and Rotation
2025-10-20
I-D Exists

6 pages
draft-usama-tls-fatt-extension-00
Extensions to TLS FATT Process
2025-07-07
I-D Exists

17 pages
draft-wagner-tls-keysharepqc-07
New Key Share Extension for Classic McEliece Algorithms
2025-12-19
New
I-D Exists Informational

14 pages
draft-wang-tls-service-affinity-00
Service Affinity Solution based on Transport Layer Security (TLS)
2025-10-17
I-D Exists

20 pages
draft-wiggers-tls-authkem-psk-04
KEM-based pre-shared-key handshakes for TLS 1.3
2025-11-04
I-D Exists

8 pages
draft-yang-tls-hybrid-sm2-mlkem-03
Hybrid Post-quantum Key Exchange SM2-MLKEM for TLSv1.3
2025-11-14
I-D Exists

27 pages
draft-yusef-tls-pqt-dual-certs-01
Post-Quantum Traditional (PQ/T) Hybrid Authentication with Dual Certificates in TLS 1.3
2025-12-17
New
I-D Exists

22 pages
draft-zhou-tls-tls14-04
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.4
2025-10-02
I-D Exists

5 pages
draft-farrell-tls-pemesni-11
PEM file format for ECH
2025-12-04
In Last Call (ends 2026-01-01)
IETF stream : Proposed Standard
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Action Holder: Paul Wouters
Paul Wouters
Sean Turner