Bob Razler on Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:20:30 +0100


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RE: [PLUG] What's smime.p7s? (Was: Ginger) 

They are digital signatures from verisign.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Walt Mankowski [mailto:waltman@pobox.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:06 PM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] What's smime.p7s? (Was: Ginger)

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 01:34:24PM -0500, Bob Razler wrote:

[-- Attachment #2: smime.p7s --]
[-- Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature, Encoding: base64, Size: 4.2K
--]

Just curious -- what are these files you're attaching to your posts?
Is pkcs some sort of encryption system?  4.2K seems like an awfully
large signature.  It's an order of magnitude larger than gpg's sigs.

Walt

Attachment: smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature