{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-smime-cert-08",
  "doc_id": "RFC2632",
  "title": "S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling",
  "authors": [
    "B. Ramsdell, Ed."
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "13",
  "pub_status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "source": "S/MIME Mail Security",
  "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]",
  "pub_date": "June 1999",
  "keywords": [
    "encryption",
    "certificate",
    "multipurpose",
    "internet",
    "mail",
    "extensions",
    "secure"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [
    "RFC3850"
  ],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC2632",
  "errata_url": null
}