I have an intermediate SMIME decrypting problem. I'm using following 
commandline interface (little bit outdated openssl 0.9.6b @ HPUX-B.11.11):

  cat email | openssl smime -decrypt -inkey mykey -recip mycert

This works usually without problems. But Emails from one particular
address I can decrypt only most of the time. Sometimes I'll get
following error message:

openssl-0.9.6b:

  Error reading S/MIME message
  27549:error:0D06B078:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_get_object:header too 
long:asn1_lib.c:139:
  27549:error:21078082:PKCS7 routines:B64_READ_PKCS7:decode 
error:pk7_mime.c:142:
  27549:error:2107A08B:PKCS7 routines:SMIME_read_PKCS7:pkcs7 parse 
error:pk7_mime.c:299:

same effect with openssl-0.9.7-beta6:

  Error reading S/MIME message
  13482:error:0D06B08E:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_d2i_bio:not enough 
data:a_d2i_fp.c:240:
  13482:error:21078082:PKCS7 routines:B64_READ_PKCS7:decode 
error:pk7_mime.c:142:
  13482:error:2107A08B:PKCS7 routines:SMIME_read_PKCS7:pkcs7 parse 
error:pk7_mime.c:299:

When I'll try the same command later it might or might not get decrypted 
successful ... 
What does "header too long" mean in the context of SMIME decrypt (or "not 
enough data")?

Thanks,
-- Beat
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