@misc{rfc8550, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 8550, howpublished = {RFC 8550}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC8550}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8550}, author = {Jim Schaad and Blake C. Ramsdell and Sean Turner}, title = {{Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 4.0 Certificate Handling}}, pagetotal = 29, year = 2019, month = apr, abstract = {This document specifies conventions for X.509 certificate usage by Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) v4.0 agents. S/MIME provides a method to send and receive secure MIME messages, and certificates are an integral part of S/MIME agent processing. S/MIME agents validate certificates as described in RFC 5280 ("Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile"). S/MIME agents must meet the certificate-processing requirements in this document as well as those in RFC 5280. This document obsoletes RFC 5750.}, }