On Tue, Apr 26, 2005, Eddy Tan wrote: > Hi, > > Is it true that opensslīs missing something crucial on the > header īContent-Type:ī when creating smime message? > Doing below command: > > openssl smime -encrypt -des3 -from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' \ > -to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' -subject 'test' \ > -in /tmp/body.txt -out /tmp/last.enc user_cert.pem > > Results in (only necessary headers shown, anything else > eliminated): > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7m" > Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-mime; name="smime.p7m" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > > Look at the above Content-Type header, mutt complains with that > header, but everything seems ok after manually editing the > header and changed it into: > Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-mime; > smime-type=enveloped-data; > name="smime.p7m" >
I certainly wouldn't say that that was "essential". Its an optional hint as to the PKCS#7 type of the message. OpenSSL currently doesn't include that header but it is not hard to add it. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Funding needed! Details on homepage. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
