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Title : Security Multiparts for MIME:
Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted
Author(s) : J. Galvin, S. Murphy, S. Crocker, N. Freed
Filename : draft-ietf-pem-sigenc-02.txt
Pages : 10
Date : 11/23/1994
This document defines two new content types for specifying the application
of security services to MIME message bodies. MIME, an acronym for
"Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions", defines the format of the contents
of Internet mail messages and provides for multi-part textual and
non-textual message bodies. The new content types are subtypes of
multipart: signed and encrypted. Each will contain two body parts: one for
the protected data and one for the control information necessary to remove
the protection. The type and contents of the control information body
parts are determined by the value of the protocol parameter of the
enclosing multipart/signed or multipart/encrypted content type, which is
required to be present.
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