[dev] Multiple S/MIME private/public keys

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Roger Håkansson <hson at ludd.luth.se>:

| I'm sitting here wondering how to store multiple S/MIME private/public
| keys.
| Now you might wonder why you would like to do that, well if you (like me)
| have saved lots of old mail(I save all mail except for mailinglists,
| newsletters and spam) you might have some mails encrypted with one of
| your
| old (expired) public keys.
| In order to be able to read those mails you need to use that old key, but
| IMP can only store one key.
|
|
| I've been thinking on the best way to implement the ability to store
| multiple private(and why not public) keys
| One way would be to do something similiar to the current implementation,
| i.e. store the private/public keys in horde_prefs with "pref_name" set to
| "smime_private_key_X"/"smime_public_key_X" (X being a sequence number).
| Setting which key to use when sending mail, could be done with something
| like "pref_name" "active_smime_key".
|
| Any comments and thoughts?

This has been talked about before (generally, in connection with storing
different PGP keys for different email addresses).  If we implement this,
we will want to tie it into Identity:: so that's a good place to start
looking.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder