{
  "draft": "draft-hoffman-smtp-ssl-10",
  "doc_id": "RFC2487",
  "title": "SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS",
  "authors": [
    "P. Hoffman"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "8",
  "pub_status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "source": "Legacy",
  "abstract": "This document describes an extension to the SMTP service that allows an SMTP server and client to use transport-layer security to provide private, authenticated communication over the Internet.  This gives SMTP agents the ability to protect some or all of their communications from eavesdroppers and attackers. [STANDARDS-TRACK]",
  "pub_date": "January 1999",
  "keywords": [
    "simple",
    "mail",
    "transfer",
    "protocol",
    "transport",
    "layer",
    "security",
    "ssl"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [
    "RFC3207"
  ],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC2487",
  "errata_url": null
}