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Examples of S/MIME Messages
RFC 4134

Document Type RFC - Informational (July 2005) Errata
Author Paul E. Hoffman
Last updated 2020-01-21
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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RFC 4134
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***5.1.bin***

|* Example 5.1.bin
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***5.2.bin***

|* Example 5.2.bin
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|* Example 5.3.eml
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|* Example 6.0.bin
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***7.1.bin***

|* Example 7.1.bin
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C.  Acknowledgements

   Blake Ramsdell, Jim Schaad, and John Pawling contributed the vast
   majority of the examples in this document, and/or correct examples
   during the early versions of this document.  Additional examples came
   from many people, including Rob Colestock and Paul Hoffman.
   Additional testing came from Holger Ebel and Russ Housley.

   The examples are displayed with a modified version of Peter Gutmann's
   "dumpasn1" program.  Peter and Jim Schaad and Blake Ramsdell have
   been updating the program based on input from the process of writing
   this draft.

Editor's Address

   Paul Hoffman
   Internet Mail Consortium
   127 Segre Place
   Santa Cruz, CA  95060 USA

   EMail: phoffman@imc.org

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