{
  "number": 2632,
  "title": "S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling",
  "authors": [
    "B. Ramsdell, Ed."
  ],
  "published": "1999-06",
  "status": "Proposed Standard",
  "stream": "IETF",
  "area": "sec",
  "working_group": "smime",
  "pages": 13,
  "formats": [
    "TXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "abstract": "S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), provides a method to send and receive secure MIME messages. Before using a public key to provide security services, the S/MIME agent MUST certify that the public key is valid. S/MIME agents MUST use PKIX certificates to validate public keys as described in the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKIX) Certificate and CRL Profile. [STANDARDS-TRACK]",
  "keywords": [
    "encryption",
    "certificate",
    "multipurpose",
    "internet",
    "mail",
    "extensions",
    "secure"
  ],
  "draft": "draft-ietf-smime-cert-08",
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC2632",
  "obsoleted_by": [
    "RFC3850"
  ],
  "urls": {
    "html": "https://rfc.dk/rfc2632/",
    "text": "https://rfc.dk/rfc2632.txt",
    "rfc_editor": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2632",
    "datatracker": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2632/"
  },
  "text_modified": "1999-07-06T19:00:32Z"
}