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SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS
draft-hoffman-smtp-ssl-10

RFC
Document Stream: Legacy
Last updated: 1998-11-09
Intended RFC status: Proposed Standard
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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]

Authors:
Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>

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