[imp] Problems signing a S\MIME message
Dmitriy Bondar
dbondtmp1 at datanaut.com
Wed May 5 11:12:05 PDT 2004
I can confirm this behavior. The private key must be encrypted with a
passphrase. Otherwise the pop-up won't allow you to enter an empty one. It
there a way to detect that the private key is not encrypted and skip the
passphase dialog?
Dmitriy
On Wed, 5 May 2004, Jan Schneider wrote:
>
> Zitat von Eduardo Juchem <juchem at inf.ufsc.br>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having the following problem with S/MIME signed messages in the CVS
> > version of IMP:
> >
> > I have a certificate instaled in a computer at my College. I exported my
> > key in the pkcs7 format, suported by IMP, and brought it to my computer at
> > home. Inside Horde, in the menu Options->Mail->S\MIME Options, i could
> > successfully import my key by importing the pkcs7 file. But when i try to
> > sign a message with the option "S/MIME Sign Message" in the Encryption
> > Options box, and try to send this message, i'm having the following error:
> >
> > S/MIME Error: Need passphrase for personal private key.
> >
> >
> > S/MIME suport is activated in prefs.php. Am i doing something wrong, or
> > just missing something before importing the pkcs7 file?
>
> Don't you get a popup prompting for a passphrase? If not, make sure you
> allow unrequested popups in your browser for the site running IMP.
>
> Jan.
>
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