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

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

Is there a way to eliminate them from the list? They are clogging my 
download directory.  Frankly, I don't care if the mail I get from this list 
is authenticated, and its certainly not secret.

Art

At 02:21 PM 12/3/2001 -0500, you 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.
>
> S/MIME is an SSL-based MIME extension, developed by (I think) RSA Data
> Security.  It attempts to do the same sort of stuff as PGP - allowing for
> encrypting/decrypting and signing of emails.  pkcs #7 is the data format.
>
> Outlook comes with support for it built-in, and PHP has some new S/MIME
> functions built-in if compiled with openssl support.
>
> I think there is more info at openssl.org


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