Re: Reading encrypted+signed S/MIME messages

[Arne Jørgensen]

Milan Zamazal <pdm@brailcom.org> writes:

> When I send an S/MIME message encrypted and signed in Gnus with the `C-c
> C-m c s' command, the same Gnus version (current CVS Emacs) can't read
> it.  It first asks whether to decrypt the message and after the `y'
> answer it reports: Could not identify PKCS#7 type.  openssl decrypts and
> verifies the received message fine.
>
> I can see the beginning of the message doesn't match the contents of
> mm-pkcs7-signed-magic nor mm-pkcs7-enveloped-magic.  FWIW, here is the
> beginning of the message, base64 encoded:
>
>   MIIKQwYJKoZIhvcNAQcDoIIKNDCCCjACAQAxggEAMIH9AgEAMIGmMIGYMQswCQYD
>
> How is it possible that Gnus can't read its own messages?
>
> Thanks for any clue.
>
> Milan Zamazal

What version of openssl do you have

I know there have been problems with some versions of openssl's smime
handling. I think it was in 0.9.7d , but I don't know whether it was
the above mentioned problem.

Kind regards,
-- 
Arne Jørgensen <http://arnested.dk/>