There is a big security bug in TB related to handling of s/mime certificates. 
TB deletes or damages S/MIME capabilities data of the certificate, especially 
data of the recipient's S/MIME capabilities. Consequence: if you import a 
certificate sent by TB with MS Outlook, Outlook (and most probably other mail 
clients) does not know which encryption algorithm to use and will use the 
lowest possible (RC2 40 bits). A 40 bit encryption is far from secure. It is 
currently impossible to distribute certificates using TB to Outlook recipients 
because TB damages the certificates. Can anyone confirm this?


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