S/MIME Working Group

Welcome to the Web site for the ietf-smime mailing list. The ietf-smime mailing list discusses sending MIME messages in an interoperable, secure fashion using S/MIME. The mailing list is the vehicle for the S/MIME Working Group in the IETF. The Working Group's charter explains the goals and tasks of the group.

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There is an HTML-based archive from 2000 to present of the mailing list, and an archive from 1996 to 1999. You can also access the text-based archive from 2000 to present and archive from 1996 to 1999 as a single text file. Please read through the archive before posting to the mailing list, since many topics of interest have already been discussed.

See the SMIME's working group's charter for a list of the Internet Drafts and RFCs that are part of the WG.

The Web site for this mailing list is sponsored by the Internet Mail Consortium. If you have any suggestions for additions or corrections to this Web page, please send them to phoffman@imc.org.

The official SMIME OID arc is maintained by Russ Housley and is reproduced here. Another handy list of interesting OIDs is maintained by Peter Gutmann as the configuration file for his dumpasn1 program. The C source code for the dumpasn1 program is also available and has been found to be very useful when debugging.