RFC 3850 on Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Certificate Handling

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        RFC 3850

        Title:      Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
                    (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Certificate Handling
        Author(s):  B. Ramsdell, Editor
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       July 2004
        Mailbox:    blake@sendmail.com
        Pages:      16
        Characters: 37446
        Obsoletes:  2632

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-smime-rfc2632bis-07.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3850.txt

This document specifies conventions for X.509 certificate usage by
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) 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 3280, 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 3280.

This document is a product of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group
of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
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