Re: Two private SMIME certificates conundrum

2015-04-05 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
While you are fixing these problems, could one of you look at a problem I reported a few weeks ago. I have a colleague in a university in the Netherlands where he is forced to use S/MIME. He was sending me attachments for the drafts of a paper we were writing. He was not encrypting the email. I d

Re: Two private SMIME certificates conundrum

2015-04-05 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Dave Dodge [2015-04-04 18:30 -0400]: Some formal key infrastructures managed by corporations, government departments, etc. will issue you two distinct private keys, each with its own X.509 certificate. One is only to be used for digital signatures, and the other is only to be used for data en

Re: Two private SMIME certificates conundrum [solved]

2015-04-05 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
[Apologies to Kevin and Bernard: the first email went to their individual email accounts but was supposed to go to the list.] It is evident from the answers that I need to review the how to ask questions the smart way page [1], but I've solved the problem (although the solution is not elegant).

Re: Two private SMIME certificates conundrum

2015-04-04 Thread Dave Dodge
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 07:15:54PM +0200, Bernard Massot wrote: > David J. Weller-Fahy wrote : > > After much frustration I discovered why mutt wouldn't work with the > > SMIME keys issued at work: there are two of the private keys (one for > > signature, one for encryption), and a single public ke

Re: Two private SMIME certificates conundrum

2015-04-04 Thread Bernard Massot
David J. Weller-Fahy wrote : > After much frustration I discovered why mutt wouldn't work with the > SMIME keys issued at work: there are two of the private keys (one for > signature, one for encryption), and a single public key. What's that protocol? Until known I've only heard of sender's private

Re: Two private SMIME certificates conundrum

2015-04-03 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
David J. Weller-Fahy wrote: > After much frustration I discovered why mutt wouldn't work with the > SMIME keys issued at work: there are two of the private keys (one for > signature, one for encryption), and a single public key. As I have an > employer that is more than willing to let me use mutt

Two private SMIME certificates conundrum

2015-04-03 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
After much frustration I discovered why mutt wouldn't work with the SMIME keys issued at work: there are two of the private keys (one for signature, one for encryption), and a single public key. As I have an employer that is more than willing to let me use mutt (if I can get it to work properly)