RFC 5750
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Certificate Handling, January 2010
- File formats:
- Status:
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Obsoletes:
- RFC 3850
- Obsoleted by:
- RFC 8550
- Authors:
- B. Ramsdell
S. Turner - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- smime (sec)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5750
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Abstract
This document specifies conventions for X.509 certificate usage by Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) v3.2 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, the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and 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 3850. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.