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@misc{rfc2487,
    series =    {Request for Comments},
    number =    2487,
    howpublished =  {RFC 2487},
    publisher = {RFC Editor},
    doi =       {10.17487/RFC2487},
    url =       {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2487},
    author =    {Paul E. Hoffman},
    title =     {{SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS}},
    pagetotal = 8,
    year =      1999,
    month =     jan,
    abstract =  {This document describes an extension to the SMTP service that allows an SMTP server and client to use transport-layer security to provide private, authenticated communication over the Internet. This gives SMTP agents the ability to protect some or all of their communications from eavesdroppers and attackers. {[}STANDARDS-TRACK{]}},
}