On Fri, May 14, 2004, David Gianndrea wrote:
> Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
>
> >If you create an email sign it and save as a draft then find the draft and
> >save it as a .eml file you can try:
> >
> >openssl smime -pk7out -in message.eml -out mess.pem
> >
> >openssl asn1parse -in mess.pem
> >
> >y
Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
If you create an email sign it and save as a draft then find the draft and
save it as a .eml file you can try:
openssl smime -pk7out -in message.eml -out mess.pem
openssl asn1parse -in mess.pem
you'll see things like des, rc2 and so on in there.
Thanks Dr. Steve, I almost
On Thu, May 13, 2004, David Gianndrea wrote:
>
>
> If I sent my self a signed message, is there a way using the openssl
> command to see what the SMIMECapabilities attribute is set too? Would
> it be a list of the OID's of all the ciphers?
>
>
If you create an email sign it and save as a draf
Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
Well you could look at the S/MIME v2 specs, the SMIMECapabilities attribute is
specified in RFC2311.
Ok the fog is starting to clear a bit. In looking at other mail clients
mainly the current Outlook, and Outlook Express I can see that there
are ways to set the minimum le
On Wed, May 12, 2004, David Gianndrea wrote:
> Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
>
>
> >When email is signed the other side receives a list of supported ciphers.
> >Many
> >email applications will list these against that recipient and use an
> >appropriate one: that is one that the email software suppo
Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
When email is signed the other side receives a list of supported ciphers. Many
email applications will list these against that recipient and use an
appropriate one: that is one that the email software supports and the
recipient supports.
Humm, Ok I am using mozilla as a
On Wed, May 12, 2004, David Gianndrea wrote:
> Is it possible to create an AES-256 user cert for personal
> email signing and encrypting?
>
There's no such thing[*].
> Perhaps more correctly what determines what cipher is used
> to encrypt an SMIME email. Is it the cert or the email
> applicati
Is it possible to create an AES-256 user cert for personal
email signing and encrypting?
Perhaps more correctly what determines what cipher is used
to encrypt an SMIME email. Is it the cert or the email
application?
If it is the email app, then just what is the cert doing for
the email app?
An inqu
