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RFC 7817
Title: Updated Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Server Identity Check Procedure for Email-Related
Protocols
Author: A. Melnikov
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: March 2016
Mailbox: [email protected]
Pages: 13
Characters: 29855
Updates: RFC 2595, RFC 3207, RFC 3501, RFC 5804
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-uta-email-tls-certs-09.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7817
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7817
This document describes the Transport Layer Security (TLS) server
identity verification procedure for SMTP Submission, IMAP, POP, and
ManageSieve clients. It replaces Section 2.4 (Server Identity Check)
of RFC 2595 and updates Section 4.1 (Processing After the STARTTLS
Command) of RFC 3207, Section 11.1 (STARTTLS Security Considerations)
of RFC 3501, and Section 2.2.1 (Server Identity Check) of RFC 5804.
This document is a product of the Using TLS in Applications Working Group of
the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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