Huibert Kivits wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > I have no experience with compiling snaps. But I did try to sign mail with > someone's smime certificate. > This failed because the guy had sent me a self-signed certificate. Apparently, > OpenSSL only accepts smime certificates that have been issued by Certification > Authorities like Verisign.
OpenSSL should accept self signed certificates with no problems. What is wont do is automatically accept any self signed certificate as valid because that would be a security hole: they have to be trusted. 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]
