IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) – Standards and Grid Codes Database

Title		IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Acronym		IETF RFC 4303
Document Type		Standard
Committee		INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE (IETF)
Published Year		2005
Link		https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4303
Abstract This document describes an updated version of the Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) protocol, which is designed to provide a mix of security services in IPv4 and IPv6. ESP is used to provide confidentiality, data origin authentication, connectionless integrity, an anti-replay service (a form of partial sequence integrity), and limited traffic flow confidentiality. This document obsoletes RFC 2406 (November 1998).