SCIP Specification

SECURE COMMUNICATION INTEROPERABILITY PROTOCOL (SCIP)

The Secure Communication Interoperability Protocol (SCIP) is a communications standard developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) to enable interoperable secure communications among allies and partners around the globe.

The SCIP-210 Signaling Plan is the specification that defines the application layer signaling used to negotiate a secure end-to-end session between two communication devices, independent of network transport. SCIP negotiates the operational mode (e.g., voice, data, etc.), the cryptographic algorithm suite (e.g., Suite A, Suite B, etc), and the traffic encryption key used for each secure session. It also provides capabilities for cryptographic synchronization and operational mode control between communicating end-point devices. SCIP is designed to operate over any network and is currently utilized in devices operating on a wide variety of networks including PSTN, ISDN, CDMA, GSM, IP, and satellite.

Potential developers of SCIP devices may contact the NSA SCIP Program Office at SCIP_POC@missi.ncsc.mil for further information. The SCIP-210 Signaling Plan is available without restrictions on its use for the development, manufacture, and sale of SCIP products. Compliance and interoperability testing will be necessary to ensure secure interoperability between the wide variety of current and future SCIP products.


General Documents
Name Date Version File Type File Size

Secure Communication Interoperability Protocol (SCIP)

03/15/2011

pdf

120623

SCIP 214 1 Rev 1 0

07/12/2011

pdf

316427

SCIP 214 2 Rev 1 0

07/12/2011

pdf

353340

SCIP Reference Module 105

Universal Elliptic Curve (EC) Key Material

07/12/2011

pdf

467022

SCIP Reference Module 108

Universal Multipoint PPK Key

07/12/2011

pdf

221581

SCIP Reference Module 151

CRC Calculation

07/12/2011

pdf

134873

SCIP Reference module 201

Universal Call Setup Encryption (CSE)

07/12/2011

pdf

181767

SCIP Reference Module 303

Universal ECMQV Key Agreement and TEK Derivation

07/12/2011

pdf

105340

SCIP Reference Module 305

Universal Multipoint PPK Processing

07/12/2011

pdf

156329

SCIP Reference Module 402

Call Setup Encryption (CSE) State Vector Processing

07/12/2011

pdf

150965

SCIP Reference Module 423

Universal Fixed Filler Generation

07/12/2011

pdf

129488

SCIP Reference Module 443

Point-to-Point Cryptographic Verification with HMAC

07/12/2011

pdf

318526

SCIP Reference Module 502

Secure G.729D Voice

07/12/2011

pdf

150133

SCIP Reference Module 516

Secure Reliable Transport (RT) Asynchronous Data

07/12/2011

pdf

126626

SCIP Reference Module 517

Secure Best Effort Transport (BET) Data

07/12/2011

pdf

158329

SCIP Reference Module 546

Secure Dial Processing

07/12/2011

pdf

166684

SCIP Reference Module 601

AES-256 Encryption Algorithm

07/12/2011

pdf

154357

Reference Module 501- Secure MELP(e) Voice Rev 1.1

07/20/2012

pdf

331219

SCIP Reference Module 106 Rev. 1.1

Universal CSE Key Material format and Fil

11/19/2012

pdf

83099

SCIP Reference Module 350 Rev. 1.1

Interoperable TP COI

11/19/2012

pdf

82606

SCIP Module 401 Rev. 1.2

Application state Vector Processing

11/19/2012

pdf

154789

SCIP Reference Module 547 Rev. 1.0

Secure Messaging Processing

11/19/2012

pdf

71991

SCIP 233 Rev. 1.1

Crypto Spec Main Module

11/19/2012

pdf

189957

SCIP-214 Revision 1.2

Network-Specific Minimun Essential Requirements 8 July 2011

05/28/2013

pdf

85438

SCIP-233.501 REV 1.2

Reference Madule 501 - Secure MELP(e) Voice Specification 8 January 2013

05/28/2013

pdf

352303

SCIP-233.562 Rev 1.0

Reference madule 562-Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) Data Integrity 8 January 2013

05/28/2013

pdf

141977

SCIP-215 Rev 2.2

U.S. Secure Communication Interoperability Protocol (SCIP) ver IP Impementation Standard and Minimum Essential Requirements (MER) 8 July 2011

05/28/2013

pdf

451941

SCIP-216 Rev 2.2

Minimum Essential requirements (MER) for V.150.1 Gateways 8 July 2011

05/28/2013

pdf

435754

SCIP-210 Rev 3.6

Signaling Plan

06/11/2013

pdf

2685148