Re: [Evolution] How to digitally sign emails using certificate

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On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 16:58, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> What Evolution subcomponents would need to be accessed to code such a module?
> In this country (and a few neighboring ones), legally-binding digital signatures
> are already enforced by law, only the technology to implement them is missing
> (except for Windows, of course...).

Depends on how its done.

If we do something like the pgp code, which might work in some cases,
then we just need a command that we can execute that can do the various
s/mime operations.  "openssl" part of the OpenSSL package has some
support for s/mime, and it coudl be used.  Then you just need a wrapper
in camel to execute it properly.  We already have a class that should be
subclassed for this, etc (the class can sign/verify/encrypt/descrypt
data basically - no management operations).

To do it 'fully', we'd need a c ssl library (thread safe as well), that
can sit behind the same interfaces (e.g. see camel-multipart-signed for
an object that uses the gpg interfaces we have for pgp mail).

> On 14 Jul 2002, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > You can't.
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 03:41, Jean-Noel Colin wrote:
> > > I would like to know if (and how) it is possible to digitally sign
> > > emails using certificates, not PGP or GPG?
>
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