Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)

This specification has been revised 5 times since RFC 2630 (1999). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 2630 (1999)
  2. RFC 3211 (2001)
  3. RFC 3369 (2002)
  4. RFC 3370 (2002)
  5. RFC 3852 (2004)
  6. RFC 5652 (2009)

Current versions — implement against these

Superseded versions — historical reference only

This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 5652 (September 2009).