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RFC 8162: Using Secure DNS to Associate Certificates with Domain Names for S/MIME

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This document describes how to use secure DNS to associate an S/MIME user's certificate with the intended domain name, similar to the way that DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE), RFC 6698, does for TLS.

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Document ID
RFC8162
Published
May 2017
Authors
P. Hoffman; J. Schlyter
Status
EXPERIMENTAL
Stream
IETF
Area
sec
Pages
11
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