Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I: Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures
This specification has been revised 3 times since RFC 989 (1987). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.
Revision timeline
Current version — implement against this
Superseded versions — historical reference only
- RFC 989Privacy enhancement for Internet electronic mail: Part I: Message encipherment and authentication proceduresObsoletedFebruary 1987replaced by RFC1040, RFC1113
- RFC 1040Privacy enhancement for Internet electronic mail: Part I: Message encipherment and authentication proceduresObsoletedJanuary 1988replaced by RFC1113
- RFC 1113Privacy enhancement for Internet electronic mail: Part I - message encipherment and authentication proceduresObsoletedAugust 1989historicreplaced by RFC1421
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 1421 (February 1993).