Canonical URL:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6520.txt

File formats:

Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Updated by:

RFC 8447

Authors:

R. Seggelmann
M. Tuexen
M. Williams

Stream:

IETF

Source:

tls (sec)

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DOI:  10.17487/RFC6520

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Abstract

This document describes the Heartbeat Extension for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocols.

The Heartbeat Extension provides a new protocol for TLS/DTLS allowing the usage of keep-alive functionality without performing a renegotiation and a basis for path MTU (PMTU) discovery for DTLS. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.

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