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Shepherd writeup
draft-ietf-httpauth-mutual-algo

Authors are Yutaka Oiwa, Hajime Watanabe, Hiromitsu Takagi, Kaoru Maeda, 
Tatsuya Hayashi and Yuichi Ioku. Kathleen Moriarty is the responsible 
Area Director. Yoav Nir is the document shepherd.

Summary
   This document specifies cryptographic algorithms for use with the
   Mutual user authentication method for the Hyper-text Transport
   Protocol (HTTP).
   
Review and Consensus
   This document is one in a three-part set of documents describing the
   Mutual-Auth authentication method for HTTP. This part describes the
   cryptographic algorithms for use with MutualAuth. The algorithms are 
   based on Augmented Password-based Authenticated Key Exchange 
   (Augmented PAKE) techniques.

   With version -05 it is the consensus of the HTTP-Auth working group 
   that this document is fit to be published as an experimental RFC.
   The document received a moderate amount of review from the working 
   group. In addition we solicited and received a review from Melinda 
   Shore.
   
   There are implementations of this protocol written by the authors.
   They take the form of a modified web server and a fork of the Firefox
   browser that include this functionality.
   
Intellectual Property
   All authors have confirmed that they are not aware of any undisclosed 
   IPR associated with this document. There have been no IPR disclosures.
   
Other Issues
   None
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