On Wed, Aug 31, 2005, Jason Haar wrote:

> 
> 
> The other thing is that I can use Outlook to send an encrypted email to
> myself, then access that mailbox using Thunderbird (with the same cert)
> - and Thunderbird reads it fine. So Outlook must have successfully used
> the private key to do the encryption. It's weird - it can generate
> encrypted emails, but can't read them...
> 
> 

Sending encrypted mail just uses the public key but if SSL client
authentication works then something will use the private key OK.

What about signed mail using that certificate, does that verify OK? Can
thunderbird generated encrypted mail using the same key and certificate be
read using Outlook?

Steve.
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