Hi,
in kmail I routinely sign my emails using s/mime. I rarely use s/mime encryption, but I haven't seen a problem for a long time. However, recently a friend of mine sent me two encrypted emails. The first one from kmail. No problems at all with that email. The second one he sent from thunderbird and this email is shown as garbled junk in the message preview pane as you can see here: http://tinyurl.com/2jq4z6n Only when I accidentally hit the Enter key the message was decrypted and readable see http://tinyurl.com/38fx3e I asked a number of people to send me s/mime encrypted emails from thunderbird and the result is always the same. I had a closer look at the emails to try to find a difference. I found a couple of small differences, but since I don't know (yet) what a standard compliant s/mime encrypted email should look like, I don't know which one is the reason of the problem: * Attachments: - from thunderbird: kmail shows an attachment named "opaque signed data" - from kmail: kmail shows no attachment * Header info: - from thunderbird: Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-mime; name="smime.p7m" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7m" Content-Description: S/MIME Encrypted Message - from kmail: Content-Type: application/pkcs7-mime; smime-type=enveloped-data; name="smime.p7m" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7m" Can one of the experts make sense of this? Cheers, Andreas _______________________________________________ Gpa-dev mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gpa-dev |
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:09, Andreas Petzold wrote:
> * Header info: > - from thunderbird: > > Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-mime; > name="smime.p7m" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7m" > Content-Description: S/MIME Encrypted Message Sounds like one of the symptoms of https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue2182 Which version are you using precisely? I suggest to try a recent enterprise35 version and file a report in the tracker above, if this still does not work. BTW: Your first tinyurl did not work for me. -- Managing Director - Owner: www.intevation.net (Free Software Company) Germany Coordinator: fsfeurope.org. Coordinator: www.Kolab-Konsortium.com. Intevation GmbH, Osnabrück, DE; Amtsgericht Osnabrück, HRB 18998 Geschäftsführer Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Gpa-dev mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gpa-dev |
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Hi Bernhard,
Quoting Bernhard Reiter <[hidden email]>: > On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:09, Andreas Petzold wrote: >> * Header info: >> - from thunderbird: >> >> Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-mime; >> name="smime.p7m" >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 >> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7m" >> Content-Description: S/MIME Encrypted Message > > Sounds like one of the symptoms of > https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue2182 > > Which version are you using precisely? enterprise 20071204 r744693 packaged by kde-redhat. > I suggest to try a recent enterprise35 version and file a report > in the tracker above, if this still does not work. OK, recently I got an update of my kdepim packages to version 20080109 r758806. And hooray - no more garbled messages! But now I can't decrypt them :-( since it says: Unsupported algorithm. And this is confusing! As you can see from http://tinyurl.com/38fx3e my old kmail version was able to decrypt the message. Is thunderbird doing something non-standard compliant when it omits the "smime-type=enveloped-data" header or is this a problem in kmail? Or am I missing something here? > > BTW: Your first tinyurl did not work for me. Sorry, now it should work but http://tinyurl.com/2jq4z6 Cheers, Andreas _______________________________________________ Gpa-dev mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gpa-dev |
> OK, recently I got an update of my kdepim packages
> to version 20080109 r758806. And hooray - no more garbled messages! > But now I can't decrypt them :-( since it says: Unsupported algorithm. > And this is confusing! As you can see from > http://tinyurl.com/38fx3e > my old kmail version was able to decrypt the message. > Is thunderbird doing something non-standard compliant when it omits > the "smime-type=enveloped-data" header or is this a problem in kmail? > Or am I missing something here? Oh my, there seem to be known issues both with thunderbird and kmail: http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=10012362&framed=y https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379625 Still, I don't understand what's really going on. I'd appreciate some guidance here. Cheers, Andreas _______________________________________________ Gpa-dev mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gpa-dev |
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