Re: S/MIME suggestions

[Simon Josefsson <sj@extundo.com>]

Bruce Stephens <bruce+gnus@cenderis.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Yes, probably.  The way Outlook Express does it (by default) is a bit
> OTT, but it expresses the various possibilities.  When you open a
> signed and/or encrypted message, you get a screen with a number of
> items on it, with ticks or crosses by them.  I forget exactly the
> list, but it'll include things like "signature verifies", "certificate
> trusted", "certificate issuer trusted", "certificate subject matches
> from address", and so on.  (Things for expiry, too, I guess.)

That's too obtrusive imho, but there should be a menu or something on
the security button so one could list all details of a signed part.

> Anyway, this is making real progress---S/MIME support seems to be
> approaching PGP's in usability.

Deciphering S/MIME messages doesn't work though.  Mainly because
S/MIME didn't use RFC 1847.  Sigh.  I have a sort-of working elisp
ASN.1 library now, that is able to parse those PKCS#7 blobs and find
out what they are.  I'll check it in soon..