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Clear description of the referenced document:
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Name:
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IETF RFC 6979 (2013)
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Title:
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Deterministic Usage of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
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Status of approval:
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August 2013 as Information
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Justification for the specific reference:
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DSA and ECDSA are used
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Current information, if any, about IPR issues:
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This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
Provisions Relating to IETF Documents in effect on the date of
publication of this document (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).
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Other useful information describing the "Quality" of the document:
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This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This is a contribution to the RFC Series, independently of any other
RFC stream. The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at its discretion and makes no statement about its value for implementation or deployment.
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The degree of stability or maturity of the document:
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Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6979
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Relationship with other existing or emerging documents:
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None.
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Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed:
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[FIPS-186-4] National Institute of Standards and Technology,/
"Digital Signature Standard (DSS)", Federal Information/
Processing Standards Publication (FIPS PUB) 186-4,/
July 2013./
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[RFC2104] Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., and R. Canetti, "HMAC:/
Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication", RFC 2104,/
February 1997./
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[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate/
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997./
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[SEC1] Certicom Research, "SEC 1: Elliptic Curve Cryptography/
(Version 2.0)", May 2009./
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[SP800-90A] National Institute of Standards and Technology,/
"Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using/
Deterministic Random Bit Generators (Revised)", NIST/
Special Publication 800-90A, January 2012. /
[X9.62] American National Standards Institute, "Public Key/
Cryptography for the Financial Services Industry: The/
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)",/
ANSI X9.62-2005, November 2005.
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Qualification of
ISOC/IETF:
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9.1-9.6 Decisions of ITU Council to admit ISOC to participate in the work of the Sector (June 1995 and June 1996).
9.7 The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) is responsible for ongoing maintenance of the RFCs when the need arises. Comments on RFCs and corresponding changes are accommodated through the existing standardization process.
9.8 Each revision of a given RFC has a different RFC number, so no confusion is possible. All RFCs always remain available on-line. An index of RFCs and their status may be found in the IETF archives at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html.
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Other (for any supplementary information):
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None.
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