"Bob Relyea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just to get this straight:
>
> 1. You have a CD with *encrypted* content (the content is already 
> encrypted on the CD).
> 2. You wish to browse to that content using the file:// url to read the 
> content.
> 3. The content is encrypted for a particular user based on a certificate 
> that user already holds.

Yes, except of 3.) The certificate should be delivered to the user with the 
cd. But this wouldn't be the problem, I think.

> If all three of these holds true, then you can accomplish this goal 
> without changes to firefox. Simply wrap your html message in mime headers 
> and encode them with cms (S/MIME). You will need the certificate of the 
> user or users you are encrypting to to make the content. You will need to 
> make sure your CD content maps the the mime type application/x-pkcs7-mime. 
> I believe firefox recognizes this mime-type (since it shares this part of 
> the code with thunderbird).

Thanks for this answer, I''ll try! 


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