{
  "draft": "draft-touch-tcp-ao-nat-05",
  "doc_id": "RFC6978",
  "title": "A TCP Authentication Option Extension for NAT Traversal",
  "authors": [
    "J. Touch"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "6",
  "pub_status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "source": "INDEPENDENT",
  "abstract": "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.",
  "pub_date": "July 2013",
  "keywords": [
    "TCP-AO"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC6978",
  "errata_url": null
}