It just takes AT&T and the NSA a bit of time to de-encrypt it.  Eventually
you will wind up on the "Do not Fly" list.

Douglas L. Theobald wrote:
> S/MIME signed/encrypted messages started crashing my Mail app long
> ago, after one of the first updates to 10.4.  I probably sent in a
> couple dozen of those crash reports, with absolutely zilch feedback,
> and of course I still have the problem.  From my end of things, those
> crash feedbacks are worthless, and I don't send them in anymore as I
> see them as a waste of my time.
>
> On Jul 7, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Ian Ollmann wrote:
>
>> When an app crashes, you should be getting a little dialog box with
>> the option to send a problem report of some kind to Apple. Send in
>> the report. This sends in some diagnostic details about Mail.app
>> state when the crash occurred to Apple. Like crash reports are
>> grouped together in a database and in a few weeks someone inside
>> Apple gets a automated bug report with a title something like "172
>> crashes in _funcname" along with some crash stack backtraces.  If
>> you have the opportunity to do so, please also send in information
>> about what steps you can take to reproduce the crash. Usually, the
>> hardest thing about fixing bugs is reproducing them.
>>
>> If you are a software developer registered with ADC you can short
>> circuit the process and directly file a bug through
>> bugreporter.apple.com. Please attach a crash log and explain how to
>> reproduce the problem.
>>
>> This one sounds serious enough that it might be a candidate for a
>> quick fix for the next MacOS X.4 support update, provided that the
>> right people find out about it soon enough.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On Jul 7, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Douglas L. Theobald wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, I have the exact same problem.  I haven't been able to read
>>> SMIME signed/encrypted emails now for some time (Mail just
>>> crashes).   It is an intel apple bug of some sort.  If you find
>>> the email in ~/Library/Mail, you can plain text cut out the sig
>>> and read the email.  [Ick]  This is especially annoying since
>>> apple Mail used to have such nice native integration of SMIME.
>

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