On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012, GWu wrote:
>> [...]
>> openssl smime -inform SMIME -CAfile all.pem -verify -in mail.eml
>> which gives an error:
>> [...]
>
> It sounds like the signature is malformed. That wouldn't cause problems with
> asn1parse but would when OpenSSL tried to verify it.
>
> I'd need to see the email to be sure though.

The email is available at
http://www.buergerkarte.at/mvnforum/mvnforum/viewthread_thread,272#1180
(German language forum, but the email - or it's significant parts
respectively - is easily visble).

>> PS: [...] And Thunderbird most probably uses
>> openssl libraries internally, so I've ended up here.
>
> Thunderbird doesn't use OpenSSL it uses its own cryptographic library called
> NSS.

I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the clarification.

kind regards,
 Georg
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