[ILUG] handling smime attachments

Paul Mc Auley paul at peema.org
Fri Jan 23 15:21:07 GMT 2004


On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:44:25PM +0000, John Allman wrote:
| Hi - due to The Only Machine Set Up To Decrypt SMIME Messages That Was 
| Set Up Before I Began Working Here breaking badly and apparently 
| irreperably, I desperately need to get decrypting smime encrypted emails 
| working and quickly.

| If anyone can suggest any solution that'll get me around this problem, 
| please do. It doesn't *have* to be a mozilla solution.

Hmm. Perhaps the most low down and dirty solution, (no not OutHouse)
would be to use (openssl) smime. I'm not sure, but it may be as simple
as dumping the whole message out to file along with your key, and
using something of the form:
 openssl smime -in msg -inform SMIME -inkey keyfile -out decrypted

The man page has the chapter and verse...
	Paul



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