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.

To join the mailing list, send a message to:
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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.

A separate mailing list has been formed for discussing the examples in draft-ietf-smime-examples. See the ietf-smime-examples web page for more detail on the second list.

A list of all of the OIDs associated with S/MIME is available at http://www.imc.org/ietf-smime/oids.html.

Other documents that relate to this work include:

Many S/MIME implementors are also interested in PKIX. The following links are the binary examples from the PKIX part 1 draft.

The S/MIME certificate structure is based on work being done in the IETF's PKIX Working Group. S/MIME developers should probably be familiar with the work being done in that Working Group.

The RFCs for S/MIME 2 are:

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