Alex Alten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >What I really hated about it was that when [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent me an email >often I couldn't decrypt it. Why? Because his firm's email server decided >to put in the FROM field "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Since it didn't match >the email name in his X.509 certificate's DN it wouldn't decrypt the S/MIME >attachment. This also caused problems with replying to his email. It took us >hours, with several experimental emails sent back and forth, to figure out >the root of the problem.
Something's getting lost in this description. What does the value in the "From" field have to do with you decrypting a message? OTOH the mention of an "attachment" indicates a detached S/MIME signature, which doesn't have anything to do with encryption. If it is a signature, then the software should verify it with the included cert and display that as the signer. Please correct and resubmit. Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
