tcpcrypt

<p>In <a href="/facts/Computer_networking/3w5RM99p">computer networking</a>, tcpcrypt is a <a href="/facts/Transport_layer/UmIGUCeK">transport layer</a> communication <a href="/facts/Encryption/16q29Fdv">encryption</a> protocol. Unlike prior protocols like <a href="/facts/Transport_Layer_Security/pGy16TnA">TLS</a> (SSL), tcpcrypt is implemented as a <a href="/facts/Transmission_Control_Protocol/WW4sPrt9">TCP</a> extension. It was designed by a team of six security and networking experts: Andrea Bittau, Mike Hamburg, <a href="/facts/Mark_Handley_(computer_scientist)/HpMbLTBq">Mark Handley</a>, David Mazières, <a href="/facts/Dan_Boneh/kQYdavuY">Dan Boneh</a> and Quinn Slack. Tcpcrypt has been published as an Internet Draft. Experimental <a href="/facts/User-space/0yIzMY8t">user-space</a> implementations are available for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Windows. There is also a <a href="/facts/Linux_kernel/dlkduHuA">Linux kernel</a> implementation.
</p><p>The TCPINC (TCP Increased Security) <a href="/facts/Working_group/dFlAPASD">working group</a> was formed in June 2014 by <a href="/facts/Internet_Engineering_Task_Force/tIcCsFhX">IETF</a> to work on standardizing security extensions in the TCP protocol. In May 2019 the working group released <a href="/facts/RFC_(identifier)/esftTvE7">RFC</a> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8547">8547</a> and <a href="/facts/RFC_(identifier)/esftTvE7">RFC</a> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8548">8548</a> as an experimental standard for Tcpcrypt.
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