Anders Rundgren wrote: > Thank you Nelson, it worked! > > Regarding Robert's "signature facility": his e-mail client creates signatures > that renders his messages unreadable in many forums as well as in Outlook > Express.
Oh, when you previously wrote "form archives" you meant "forum archives". I understand now. Bob's email client (a.k.a. Mozilla's email client, the same one I use) sends out standards conformant S/MIME v3 email messages. Today, you and I have established that Outlook Express has no trouble reading signed emails from Bob's client, when those emails are sent directly to the recipient. Some (many) mailing list servers and newsgroup servers alter the messages as they forward them, causing the signatures to become invalid. Sadly, Mozilla's list server is one of those. :( The most common way they do that is to append some text or an attachment to the message to identify the mailing list through which it was sent. Some email clients deal with invalid signatures by simply refusing the display the body of the message whose signature is invalid. I gather than OE is one of those clients. That's why I personally don't send signed messages to newsgroups or to mailing lists that are known to mangle messages. (Note that Mozilla's email client, built into Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, will display messages with invalid signatures, and show an icon that signifies the bad signature.) My point is that the problem with displaying Bob's postings is not the fault of Bob's email client, but rather of non-compliant servers who mangle messages. Perhaps there is some configuration option (preference) by which OE users can persuade it to display messages with invalid signatures. > thanks > Anders > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nelson Bolyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.tech.crypto > To: <dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org> > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 00:49 > Subject: Re: importUserCertificates () and CMMF > > > Anders Rundgren wrote, On 2008-03-30 08:45: >> Hi, >> I managed to get generateCRMFrequest () to work with ease. >> However, the next step seems a bit harder since >> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/importUserCertificates >> talks about an CMMF object that doesn't seem to be commonly known. >> >> I believe that Robert Relyea has answered this in some forum but >> unfortunately Robert 's signature facility is incompatible with most form >> archives [as well as with Outlook Express] :-( > > Signature facility? > Form archives? > >> Can you just download a public key cert and it will "dock" properly >> rather than using the esoteric importUserCertificates method? > > Yes. See http://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Certificate_Download_Specification _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
