Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 4.0 Message Specification
This specification has been revised 3 times since RFC 2633 (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Superseded versions — historical reference only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 2633S/MIME Version 3 Message SpecificationObsoletedJune 1999proposed standardreplaced by RFC3851
- RFC 3851Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Message SpecificationObsoletedJuly 2004proposed standardreplaced by RFC5751
- RFC 5751Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Message SpecificationObsoletedJanuary 2010proposed standardreplaced by RFC8551
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 8551 (April 2019).