RFC 5751, "Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Message Specification", January 2010

Note: This RFC has been obsoleted by RFC 8551

Errata ID: 4273
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Peter Gutmann
Date Reported: 2015-02-18

Section Global says:

Notes:

RFC 5751 contains several S/MIME sample messages, prefixed with the text "A sample message would be". These samples aren't actually valid S/MIME messages but merely contain 141 bytes of random garbage. In other words the S/MIME "sample messages" aren't actually sample messages.

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