On Fri, Mar 03, 2006, Perry L. Jones wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> The man page for smime says that openssl does not support smime version 
> 3. Under the BUGS section.
> 
> http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/smime.html
> 
> Does anyone know if there is any work being done to support smime 
> Version 3?
> 

There have been many queries and discussion but so far no one has been willing
to fund the effort: it is a *lot* of work.

> If not is there possible another C api that already has support for 
> parsing smime version 3?
> 

In practice you rarely need S/MIME v3. Is there some specific feature you
require?

Steve.
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