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RFC 5911: New ASN.1 Modules for Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) and S/MIME

Still current, but amended. Parts of this document are changed or extended by RFC 6268. Read both.

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The Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) format, and many associated formats, are expressed using ASN.1. The current ASN.1 modules conform to the 1988 version of ASN.1. This document updates those ASN.1 modules to conform to the 2002 version of ASN.1. There are no bits-on-the-wire changes to any of the formats; this is simply a change to the syntax. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

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Document ID
RFC5911
Published
June 2010
Authors
P. Hoffman; J. Schaad
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
sec
Pages
59
Also known as
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Updated by:
RFC 6268

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