From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33523 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: S/MIME suggestions Date: 30 Nov 2000 10:54:09 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <871yvxdkm5.fsf_-_@cenderis.demon.co.uk> <878zq2mh6t.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169614 25603 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:06:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:06:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36947D049C for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:54:30 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAB25804; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 03:54:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 30 Nov 2000 03:53:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA26826 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 03:53:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from dolk.extundo.com (dolk.extundo.com [195.42.214.242]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823F6D049C for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:54:01 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from barbar.josefsson.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated) by dolk.extundo.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAU9rw004797; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:54:00 +0100 Original-To: Bruce Stephens In-Reply-To: <878zq2mh6t.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk> Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.0.92 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33523 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33523 Bruce Stephens 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..