From kmail-devel Wed Aug 22 00:27:02 2001 From: Marc Mutz Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 00:27:02 +0000 To: kmail-devel Subject: Re: S/MIME for KDE 3.0 X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kmail-devel&m=99844002211428 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 August 2001 20:09, Denis Perchine wrote: > > Is S/MIME using the multipart/{encrypted,signed} (RFC1847), or did > > they cook up something different? > > I would suggest you to look at www.rsa.com for PKCS standards series. > Actually S/MIME is PKCS #7. Also it was decribed somewhere else. I > found osme traces in RFCs... > > But this standard is a basic one. I know that S/MIME is defined in a series of RFC's. This doesn't answer my question. PKCS#[0-9]+ has nothing to do with how encrypted messages are sent via MIME. OK, FTR: It's RFC2311 and it seems to build on rfc1847. So the framework for rfc2015/rfc3156 that is being developed currently can be used for s/mime, too. Marc - -- "You're hackers, aren't you," the barman said, eyeing us. No one said a thing. The darkness of the Eurotunnel rolled by. Apparently we'd given ourselves away by talking too enthusiastically about IPv6. He looked around conspiratorially, lowered his voice. "Can you get me some credit card numbers?" -- James J. King "What's the shortest way to hack a Linux box?" Telepolis 2001/08/11 (#9293) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7gxIV3oWD+L2/6DgRArV9AJ9aUGj7g2rgGSKQdpCoOCjCLp5AUQCgg76P y6/n2+GEYfARQvNnCB8VS0I= =ZCXf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Kmail Developers mailing list Kmail@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail