[Alpine-info] Signing with S/MIME. [SOLVED]

[Carlos E. R.]

On 2023-11-19 21:10, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Nov 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> 

>> And today I have noticed that my email is not listed in the 

>> certificate, despite me asking for it. That could be the reason.

> 

> That is certainly relevant. S/MIME certificates are meant to verify the 

> email address, not people. Sure, you can verify people besides email 

> addresses, but the only thing that you can reliably certify is the email 

> address in a S/MIME message. I think you should pursue that line.

> 


Will Alpine fail to find a certificate if inside it doesn't tell the 
mail address?


Well, the chaps at
snews://news.individual.net/alt.comp.software.thunderbird

tell me that the problem is the missing mail address in the certificate. 
Sigh. I remember filling the forms with the email address, yet the 
government officials did not include it :-/


Pity the library doesn't spell out the true problem. The certificate 
manager at Thunderbird should tell so.

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.

   (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))

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