Abstract

The Cryptographic Context Negotiation Protocol (CCNP) report is the third publication resulting from the Dynamic Cryptographic Context Management (DCCM) project. This project is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research projects Agency (DARPA) and is being performed by Network Associates TIS Labs (previously Trusted Information Systems, Inc.) This report specifies communication protocols for use in negotiating a cryptographic context among a very large number of participants from various organizations working together on a large, sensitive computer project. A cryptographic context negotiation template (CCNT) to be used during this negotiation was specified in report number 2 [Bal98a] of this project. This template specification has been revised and augmented, making it more extensible and easier to automate [Bal98b]. The protocol is used to establish a cryptographic association among a large …

Date

1999

Authors

D Balenson, D Branstad, P Dinsmore, M Heyman, C Scace

Book

Technical report

Publisher

Network Associates, Inc.