Re: smime setup [was: Re: nnimap + mailcrypt]

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Nicolas Kowalski wrote:

> > two IETF standards on how PGP in mail should look like.  Outlook supports
> > S/MIME correctly and natively though (and so do Gnus), so perhaps you will
> > have better luck with it.  S/MIME seem to interop a magnitude or so better
> > than PGP today...  a few years ago, the reverse was true.
> 
> I have no luck :-(. See below. I followed the instructions from smime.el.
> 
> Excerpt from my .emacs:
> 
>  (smime-CA-file "\"~/perso/certs/cacert.pem\"")
>  (canlock-password "4de89211c1a1f5ac8dca322797c2cb38f36f2018")
>  (smime-keys (quote (("Nicolas.Kowalski@imag.fr" "\"~/perso/certs/niko.pem\"" nil))))

Looks good.

> And when I try to send a smime signed message, I have (sorry for the
> long lines) :

Oops.

Index: smime.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/smime.el,v
retrieving revision 6.25
diff -u -w -u -u -r6.25 smime.el
--- smime.el	2002/03/04 22:34:32	6.25
+++ smime.el	2002/04/11 15:19:15
@@ -314,10 +314,10 @@
 	 keyfile
        (smime-get-key-by-email
 	(completing-read
-	 (concat "Sign using which signature? "
+	 (concat "Sign using which key? "
 		 (if smime-keys (concat "(default " (caar smime-keys) ") ")
 		   ""))
-	 smime-keys nil nil nil nil (car-safe (car-safe smime-keys))))))))
+	 smime-keys nil nil (car-safe (car-safe smime-keys))))))))
 
 (defun smime-encrypt-buffer (&optional certfiles buffer)
   "S/MIME encrypt BUFFER for recipients specified in CERTFILES.
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@
 	    (concat "Decipher using which key? "
 		    (if smime-keys (concat "(default " (caar smime-keys) ") ")
 		      ""))
-	    smime-keys nil nil nil nil (car-safe (car-safe smime-keys)))))))))
+	    smime-keys nil nil (car-safe (car-safe smime-keys)))))))))
 
 ;; Various operations