Re: [TLS] Fwd: Last Call: draft-rescorla-tls-suiteb (Suite B Cipher Suites for TLS) to Informational RFC
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Re: [TLS] Fwd: Last Call: draft-rescorla-tls-suiteb (Suite B Cipher Suites for TLS) to Informational RFC



On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
<nmav at gnutls.org> wrote:
> Russ Housley wrote:
>
> Am I wrong or is it the first TLS related paper to mention security
> levels? It would be nice to have a definition of them cited.

The security levels are defined in NIST SP 800-57 Part 1,
Section 5.6.1 Comparable Algorithm Strengths:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html#800-57

That document uses the term "security strength", but it's
the same concept.

Wan-Teh Chang
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