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. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/ Personal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior crypto engineer, Gemplus: http://www.gemplus.com/ Core developer of the OpenSSL project: http://www.openssl.org/ Business Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: via homepage. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]