rfc-6978

A TCP Authentication Option Extension for NAT Traversal

J. Touch
date2013-07 streamINDEPENDENT statusEXPERIMENTAL pages6 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6978 doi10.17487/RFC6978
This document describes an extension to the TCP Authentication Option (TCP-AO) to support its use over connections that pass through Network Address Translators and/or Network Address and Port Translators (NATs/NAPTs). This extension changes the data used to compute traffic keys, but it does not alter TCP-AO's packet processing or key generation algorithms.