Re: mailer certificate retrieval via LDAP?
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:32:01PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Are there any common mailers -- open source preferred but not mandatory -- that can query LDAP directories to retrieve X.509 certificates for use in S/MIME messages? Evolution and Thunderbird are both able to send S/MIME, but don't seem to have any easy certificate retrieval mechanisms. Thunderbird supports PKCS#11 plugins modules, so all you need is PKCS#11 plugin for LDAP. So question looks like a question about availability of plugins, rather than MUAs... -- /\ ASCII RIBBON NOTICE: If received in error, \ / CAMPAIGN Victor Duchovni please destroy and notify X AGAINST IT Security, sender. Sender does not waive / \ HTML MAILMorgan Stanley confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mailer certificate retrieval via LDAP?
You should consider also posting your query to ldap@umich.edu JeffH - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mailer certificate retrieval via LDAP?
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:32:01PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Are there any common mailers -- open source preferred but not mandatory -- that can query LDAP directories to retrieve X.509 certificates for use in S/MIME messages? Evolution and Thunderbird are both able to send S/MIME, This works for me in a vanilla (well, debian) Thunderbird, using our university LDAP directory (at Dartmouth). The certificates are present under key userCertificate;binary in the LDAP, in base64. Alex - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
