On Sunday 20 May 2007 13:53, Jure Varlec wrote: > On Sunday 20 of May 2007 13:24:09 Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to get to grips with OpenSSL Certs in Kmail. I have created > > a CA and then created and signed with it a certificate for my email > > account (crt). Finally, I exported it as a pkcs12 bundle and tried to > > import it as smime into Konqueror & Kmail. All went seemingly well, > > except for: > > > > 1. When I tried to specify which cert to use in > > Kmail/Indentity/Cryptography I can see my imported Cert, but as I select > > it a red X comes up on the key symbol. I assume then that it is not > > suitable for smime > > signatures/encryption? > > 2. When I run gpgsm -K I get: > > =========================================== > > [snip] > > validity: 2007-05-19 18:12:12 through 2010-05-18 18:12:12 > > key type: 4096 bit RSA > > key usage: [error: No value] > > chain length: [error: No value] > > =========================================== > > > > which is different to another certificate I have obtained from > > www.cacert.org: =========================================== > > validity: 2007-04-23 13:49:42 through 2007-10-20 13:49:42 > > key type: 2048 bit RSA > > ext key usage: emailProtection (suggested), clientAuth (suggested), > > 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.10.3.4 (suggested), serverGatedCrypto.ms (suggested), > > serverGatedCrypto.ns (suggested) > > =========================================== > > > > Any ideas what I need to do to make this certificate valid for use by > > Kmail? > > > > PS. I am not sure if the above errors mean that there is anything wrong > > with my certificate, as opposed to Kmail & Kleopatra. Any certificate > > signed messages that I receive are not verified in Kmail - all I get is: > > ==================================================== > > Not enough information to check signature. [Details] > > > > Status: No status information available. > > ==================================================== > > > > If I press on [Details] Kleopatra pops up showing my cert. Selecting > > Verify just shows "done". > > > > Have you managed to make smime work with Kmail at all? > > Hello > > Heh, I dealt with a similar problem about a week ago. I'm not sure I'll > ever understand all these certificate issues that seem to crop up on just > about all platforms I ever used. > > As, for the solution, it seem Kleopatra wants app-crypt/dirmngr, emerging > it solved my problem. I'm not sure why relevant KDE apps don't depend on > it.
Thanks Jure, I'm afraid it didn't help in my case. :( When I try to sign a message with my cacert.org certificate it fails with: "Signing failed: General error". Adding my selfsigned certificate also fails (but his may have something to do with the way I generated the certificate, rather than Kmail). This is sooo complicated compared to GnuPG. Anything else I could try? -- Regards, Mick
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