Interoperability problem fixed between Thunderbird and gpgsm

2007-05-07 Thread Nicholas Sushkin
Great news. Nelson Bolyard fixed the interoperability problem. There was a problem in how gpgsm encoded cipher preferences. Thunderbird crypto library was made more lenient in what it accepted. So, now, TB would correctly responds to KMail using 3DES instead of RC/40. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.o

Re: Thunderbird S/MIME: Interoperability problem with gpgsm (KMail / Claws Mail)

2007-05-04 Thread Nicholas Sushkin
Robert Relyea wrote: > Now technically KMail MUST implement RC2-40 (is the implementers > confusing RC2 with RC5?) according to the S/MIME spec (all > implementations must support RC2-40. I read the S/MIME spec differently. Quoting Section 2.7 from http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3851.html#sec-2.

Re: Dumping RC2/40

2007-05-01 Thread Nicholas Sushkin
Thunderbird already has a bug which could be interpreted as a request to disable RC2/40 - "S/MIME should not support weak crypto" (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84213) Also, here's a thread in which author of gpgsm Werner Koch explains why he doesn't support RC2 and what he thinks a