S/MIME Last modified: Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Short for Secure/MIME, a version of the MIME protocol that supports encryption of messages. S/MIME is based on RSA's public-key encryption technology.
•E-mail this definition to a colleague• For internet.com pages about S/MIME . Also check out the following links! IETF's S/MIME Working Group Describes the IETF S/MIME working group and includes links to Internet draft documents for S/MIME 2 and 3 as well as other Internet drafts that related to this work. S/MIME and PGP/MIME Fully outlines the details of the S/MIME and PGP/MIME protocols. In addition, this page offers a current status and related documents. Secure E-mail Standard TechWeb news article (November 1997) on S/MIME becoming a formal standard via the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).	Electronic Mail Formatting Standards Internet Protocols Security World Wide Web MIME protocol public-key encryption RSA Give Us Your Feedback Shopping S MIME Products Compare Products,Prices and Stores Shop by Category: Toys 3 Store Offers Shoes 0 Store Offers Software 3 Store Offers