[horde] Anyone else having trouble with decoding s/mime?

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Fri Nov 25 06:49:26 UTC 2011


Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Michael already told you. This is *not* a problem with decoding.  
> You're messages are broken. Period. It isn't displayed in  
> Thunderbird for example either.

As mentioned before, those MUAs that you report can read that message  
are **badly** broken.  ESPECIALLY when it comes to cryptographically  
signing messages, if a message does not EXACTLY follow the established  
procedure for signing the data, how can that ever be considered  
secure?  No rational MUA will ever try to workaround a broken S/MIME  
(or PGP) message since the format of the message itself is one of the  
requirements of a signed message.  If the format is incorrect, you  
don't even need to look at the data to determine the message is  
improperly signed.

michael

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