RFC 4262: X.509 Certificate Extension for Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Capabilities

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This document defines a certificate extension for inclusion of Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Capabilities in X.509 public key certificates, as defined by RFC 3280. This certificate extension provides an optional method to indicate the cryptographic capabilities of an entity as a complement to the S/MIME Capabilities signed attribute in S/MIME messages according to RFC 3851. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

Document record

Document ID

RFC4262

Published

December 2005

Authors

S. Santesson

Status

PROPOSED STANDARD

Stream

IETF

Area

sec

Pages

5

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• DOI: 10.17487/RFC4262

Topics

• cryptographic capabilities

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