From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60455 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arne =?utf-8?Q?J=C3=B8rgensen?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: smime-cert-by-ldap-1 problem Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:51:20 +0200 Organization: Arne Joergensen -- http://arnested.dk/ Message-ID: <873briqxbr.fsf@seamus.arnested.dk> References: <877jgwfz01.fsf@seamus.arnested.dk> <87zmtqoenw.fsf@seamus.arnested.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118926085 4021 80.91.229.2 (16 Jun 2005 12:48:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8982@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jun 16 14:47:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DitmR-0000Gd-P4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:47:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Ditqo-0003xa-00; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:52:06 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Ditqg-0003xU-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:51:58 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Ditqd-00055l-Sf for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:51:56 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp040.tiscali.dk ([212.54.64.106]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ditqc-00014G-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:51:54 +0200 Original-Received: from seamus.arnested.dk (213.237.94.152.sdsl.vbr.worldonline.dk [213.237.94.152] (may be forged)) by smtp040.tiscali.dk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5GCpHpD028295; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:51:18 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: Simon Josefsson X-Face: 5t,7/Y$&<1A_t.$vC2{pWZ{m@3_06;kcm]no{hgEL/}Uz(>XV6cl4}xO\v?-h3%>znNaZtq `~rf,GY1T%r=a.zH`hOb(-]'x)nI088Z&|e;V^h;/TShou In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:40:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60455 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60455 Simon Josefsson writes: > Arne J=C3=B8rgensen writes: > >> Another solution is to look for a magic string ("MII") at the >> beginning of the certificate. I have not been able to find any >> authoritative documentation stating that a certificate must begin with >> "MII" (in base64 encoding), but googling for "x509 certificate MII" is >> not against it. > > I suspect only degenerative x.509 certs don't start in this way... Probably. > I applied your second patch. Was that you think is best? Yes. Kind regards, --=20 Arne J=C3=B8rgensen