Hello atomheart,

Monday, September 3, 2012, 3:02:10 PM, you wrote:

> 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?

Can  someone  please  confirm  if this is true or not?  If it is true, this is 
a real
problem.

Jerry
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