Draft of First Amendment to IEC 62351-3 (power system security) Published

Draft IEC 62351-3/AMD1 ED1 (57/1894/CDV)
Amendment 1 – Power systems management and associated information exchange – Data and communications security – Part 3: Communication network and system security – Profiles including TCP/IP
The crucial amendment has been prepared by IEC TC57 Working Group 15 in order to address the following:

1. Definition of additional security warnings for TLS versions 1.1 and 1.0
2. Alignment of handling of revoked or expired certificates for TLS session resumption and TLS session renegotiation
3. Clarification regarding session resumption and session renegotiation invocation based on session time.
4. Enhancement of session resumption approach with the option of session tickets to better align with the upcoming new version of TLS
5. Enhancement of the utilized public key methods for signing and key management with ECDSA based algorithms
6. Update of the requirements for referencing standards
7. Update of bibliograph

The CDV ballot ends 2017-11-03