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Guidance on End-to-End Email Security
RFC 9787

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2025-08-22
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Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created document RFC 9787, created became rfc relationship between draft-ietf-lamps-e2e-mail-guidance and RFC 9787, set title to 'Guidance …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created document RFC 9787, created became rfc relationship between draft-ietf-lamps-e2e-mail-guidance and RFC 9787, set title to 'Guidance on End-to-End Email Security', set abstract to 'End-to-end cryptographic protections for email messages can provide useful security.  However, the standards for providing cryptographic protection are extremely flexible.  That flexibility can trap users and cause surprising failures.  This document offers guidance for Mail User Agent (MUA) implementers to help mitigate those risks and to make end-to-end email simple and secure for the end user.  It provides a useful set of vocabulary as well as recommendations to avoid common failures.  It also identifies a number of currently unsolved usability and interoperability problems.', set pages to 53, set standardization level to Informational, added RFC published event at 2025-08-22)
2025-08-22
(System) RFC published