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RFC 8550
Title: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)
Version 4.0 Certificate Handling
Author: J. Schaad,
B. Ramsdell,
S. Turner
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: April 2019
Mailbox: [email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected]
Pages: 29
Characters: 63210
Obsoletes: RFC 5750
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5750-bis-08.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8550
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8550
This document specifies conventions for X.509 certificate usage by
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) v4.0 agents.
S/MIME provides a method to send and receive secure MIME messages,
and certificates are an integral part of S/MIME agent processing.
S/MIME agents validate certificates as described in RFC 5280
("Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and
Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile"). S/MIME agents must meet
the certificate-processing requirements in this document as well as
those in RFC 5280. This document obsoletes RFC 5750.
This document is a product of the Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX and
SMIME Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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