Mark Krieger wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have been looking for an SMIME toolkit to use to encrypt and decrypt
> email to and from Microsoft Outlook. This would be used as part of a much
> larger consulting project for a large customer.
> 
> Here is what we want to accomplish:
> 
> 1. perl scripts are already running on NT/2000 which can send and receive
>    text and MIME emails from our product.
> 
> 2. We want to modify these scripts so that they will call an NT exe we
>    build which will either turn the text into SMIME for sending to Outlook; or
>    turn the  SMIME message from the Outlook back into text.
> 
> Can we do this with OpenSSL?
> 

Yes. The 'openssl' utility has an 'smime' sub command that can do this.
It has its own simple MIME code but it can be used with external MIME.

>         - Is there an NT/2000 version of OpenSSL SMIME?
>         - If not, how difficult to build ourselves?

Just follow the instructions in INSTALL.W32

>         - Can this interact with Outlook SMIME, using Exchange Server?
> 

Some versions of exchange break S/MIME signatures, even Outlook ones, so
it may need to be upgraded. 

Steve.
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