Re: Problem with smime-CA-directory

["Arne Jørgensen" <arne@daimi.au.dk>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Arne Jørgensen wrote:
>
>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Arne Jørgensen wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have named the root certificate as explained in smime.el (the
>> >> certificate gets the name b415d336).
>> >
>> > I think the name should be b415d336.0.
>> >
>> > The normal approach I use is to strace OpenSSL when it verifies a message
>> > and then put the CA cert in the file it tries to open.
>> 
>> It worked. Maybe this should be documented or explained somewhere?
>
> Yes.  The OpenSSL manual should include it,

Yes. I was just reading through the openssl man pages. It actually
sounds like a bug in openssl? Or is it just an unexplained "feature".

> but I guess we could add it to the S/MIME step-by-step stuff in the
> Message manual as well.

Good idea. I think the manual misses more about how to get S/MIME up
and running in the first place. I've been looking through both the
Gnus and Message manuals and smime.el to learn what I know today.

What I'm preparing at the moment is a chapter for a danish tutorial on
how to get Gnus working with the danish CA Kommunedata. Maybe I could
easily turn this into a more general description for the manual or a
howto -- althogh my spare time is limited.

> Ideally we should use the Aegypten S/MIME stuff instead, once it
> matures.

Never heard of it. Maybe I'll take a look at it some other day.


      /arne
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