Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 4.0 Certificate Handling
This specification has been revised 3 times since RFC 2632 (1999). 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Superseded versions — historical reference only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 2632S/MIME Version 3 Certificate HandlingObsoletedJune 1999proposed standardreplaced by RFC3850
- RFC 3850Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Certificate HandlingObsoletedJuly 2004proposed standardreplaced by RFC5750
- RFC 5750Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Certificate HandlingObsoletedJanuary 2010proposed standardreplaced by RFC8550
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 8550 (April 2019).