RFC 5544 · INFORMATIONAL · 2010

Syntax for Binding Documents with Time-Stamps

Overview

RFC 5544, “Syntax for Binding Documents with Time-Stamps”, is an Informational document published in February 2010 by A. Santoni. It has since been updated by RFC 5955. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes an envelope that can be used to bind a file (not necessarily protected by means of cryptographic techniques) with one or more time-stamp tokens obtained for that file, where "time-stamp token" has the meaning defined in RFC 3161 or its successors. Additional types of temporal evidence are also allowed.

The proposed envelope is based on the Cryptographic Message Syntax as defined in RFC 5652. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

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What “Informational” means

Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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