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        RFC 2311:

        Title:      S/MIME Version 2 Message Specification
	Author(s):  S. Dusse, P. Hoffman, B. Ramsdell, L. Lundblade, 
		    L. Repka        
	Status:     Informational
	Date:       March 1998
        Mailbox:    spock@rsa.com, phoffman@imc.org,
		    blaker@deming.com,
		    lgl@qualcomm.com, repka@netscape.com
	Pages:      37
        Characters: 70901
        Updates/Obsoletes: None 

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2311.txt


S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) provides a
consistent way to send and receive secure MIME data. Based on the
popular Internet MIME standard, S/MIME provides the following
cryptographic security services for electronic messaging applications:
authentication, message integrity and non-repudiation of origin (using
digital signatures) and privacy and data security (using encryption).

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Joyce K. Reynolds and Alegre Ramos
USC/Information Sciences Institute