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        RFC 2773

        Title:      Encryption using KEA and SKIPJACK
        Author(s):  R. Housley, P. Yee, W. Nace
        Status:     Experimental
        Date:       February 2000
        Mailbox:    housley@spyrus.com, WANace@missi.ncsc.mil,
                    yee@spyrus.com 
        Pages:      9
        Characters: 20008
        Updates:    959
        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-cat-ftpkeasj-01.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2773.txt


This document defines a method to encrypt a file transfer using the
FTP specification STD 9, RFC 959, "File Transfer Protocol (FTP)",
(October 1985) [3] and RFC 2228, "FTP Security Extensions" (October
1997) [1].  This method will use the Key Exchange Algorithm (KEA) to
give mutual authentication and establish the data encryption keys.
SKIPJACK is used to encrypt file data and the FTP command channel.

This document is a product of the Common Authentication Technology
Working Group of the IETF.

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