Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010, Michael Strder wrote:
>> Someone sent me an encrypted S/MIME message which I could not decrypt in
>> Mozilla's Seamonkey. Trying to determine the cause for that I wanted to look
>> at the RecipientInfos structure with OpenSSL 0.9.8k shipped with openSUSE
>> Linux 11.2 and and also tried with OpenSSL 1.0.0 (self-compiled).
>>
>> But decoding the PKCS#7 failed (see output below). Any idea what's going 
>> wrong?
> 
> Looks like that isn't a PKCS#7 structure but a CMS structure (which is a
> superset of PKCS#7). Try the cms command in OpenSSL 1.0.0 instead.

Thanks for your quick answer.

Yes, openssl cms -cmsout outputs something which I can examine with dumpasn1
or openssl asn1parse. Looks like there's nothing like RecipientInfos with
issuer name / serial number in there...maybe subject key id is used.

Ciao, Michael.
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