RFC 4262
X.509 Certificate Extension for Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Capabilities, December 2005
- Canonical URL:
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4262.txt
- File formats:
- Status:
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Author:
- S. Santesson
- Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- smime (sec)
DOI: 10.17487/RFC4262
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Abstract
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]
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.