RFC 6019

"BinaryTime: An Alternate Format for Representing Date and Time in ASN.1", September 2010

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Status:: PROPOSED STANDARD
Obsoletes:: RFC 4049
Author:: R. Housley
Stream:: IETF
Source:: NON WORKING GROUP

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Abstract

This document specifies a new ASN.1 type for representing time: BinaryTime. This document also specifies an alternate to the signing-time attribute for use with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) SignedData and AuthenticatedData content types; the binary-signing-time attribute uses BinaryTime. CMS and the signing-time attribute are defined in RFC 5652. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.

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