On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:42:20AM +0200, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
> The Netscape Cert Type is an old non standard extension which some
> software ignores.
> 
> The standard way to do this stuff is with extended key usage and
> the appropriate usage, clientAuth in this case.
> 

Brilliant! That did the trick. Now Outlook correctly recognises clientAuth
certs as not being usable for S/MIME - just what I wanted...

Unfortunately Mozilla says the same cert *is* usable for S/MIME! Sigh...

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Jason Haar
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