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Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Abstract
This document describes the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). This syntax is used to digitally sign, digest, authenticate, or encrypt arbitrary message content.
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“Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) [19] is the main cryptographic component of S/MIME [21], which enables public key encryption and digital signatures for email.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Housley, R.
- Corresponding author
- Housley, R.
- Publisher
- RFC Editor
- Published
- 2009-09
- OpenAlex
- W2270964349
- Semantic Scholar
- 80a7ab06e0a5325a6a0b584d34e0134cb6667fde
- Cited by
- 196
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 11
- Type
- report
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Cryptographic Implementations and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Cryptography and Data Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Advanced Authentication Protocols Security
- Keywords
- Cryptographic Message Syntax, CMS, digital signatures, message authentication, message encryption, ASN.1
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