On 2000-03-14 17:29:29 +0000, Dr Stephen Henson wrote:

> The ones I tried at the time couldn't. They need to
> take the first part verbatim and convert it to
> "canonical form". Those I saw would not allow this and
> end up decoding and reencoding which would break the
> signature.

Mh.  We _are_ generating PGP/MIME successfully, but then
again, we may take some other approach.

>> Mh.  Actually, we are generally trying to keep
>> back-ends of all kinds (pgp, handlers for individual
>> MIME content types, ...) in external programs which
>> are invoked from mutt.  What I imagine is a command
>> line tool which can easily be used with advanced mail
>> user agents, from the command line, etc.  I'd prefer
>> not to have to include a tool of our own with the
>> mutt distribution.

> The smime app isn't currently a full blown S/MIME
> client just a friendly wrapper round the S/MIME API.

> A full blown application would have a key and
> certificate database and store things like the
> algorithms supported by each recipient so it doesn't
> send mail encrypted with algorithms the recipient
> doesn't support.

Are there any plans to make smime such a full-blown
application?

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