trouble with smime

trouble with smime

[Bill Day]

I have openssl installed on Windows 8 (64-bit) and I am using Emacs 24.3 with gnus.  I can verify my certificate, and I can send smime signed email.  The problem is that when gnus tries to decode smime signed email sent to me, it produces the following error message:


[[S/MIME Signed Part:Failed]
OpenSSL failed to verify message integrity:
-------------------------------------------
Can't open output file /dev/null
3828:error:02001003:system library:fopen:No such process:bss_file.c:169:fopen('/dev/null','w')
3828:error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file:bss_file.c:172:
]

If anyone has any suggestions on how to troubleshoot, I would be very grateful.

Thanks,

Bill Day

Re: trouble with smime

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Bill Day <williamson.day@gmail.com> writes:

> I have openssl installed on Windows 8 (64-bit) and I am using Emacs
> 24.3 with gnus.

[...]

> [[S/MIME Signed Part:Failed]
> OpenSSL failed to verify message integrity:
> -------------------------------------------
> Can't open output file /dev/null
> 3828:error:02001003:system library:fopen:No such
> process:bss_file.c:169:fopen('/dev/null','w')

The verification is probably done by `smime-verify-region' which says

    (if (apply 'smime-call-openssl-region b e (list smime-details-buffer t)
	       "smime" "-verify" "-out" "/dev/null" CAs)
	t

and I guess /dev/null isn't very meaningful on Windows?  Anybody know
what this should be on Windows?  Or perhaps you need a Cygwin openssl?

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