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Re: [pkix] SMIME ECC encryption

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Mon, 14 September 2020 20:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pkix] SMIME ECC encryption
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The current implementation of OpenSSL does not do S/MIME 4.0, which uses AuthEnvelopedData.  The current version of OpenSSL supports earlier versions of S/MIME, which use EnvelopedData.

Russ


> On Sep 14, 2020, at 4:07 PM, Tom Hans <tomhans18@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Maybe I misunderstood you, but do you mean with that that even the current openssl implement is not correct?
> 
> 
> Kimber regards,
> Tom
> 
> Am Samstag, 12. September 2020 schrieb Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com <mailto:housley@vigilsec.com>>:
> OpenSSL is implementing the use of AuthEnvelopedData with AES-GCM right now.
> 
> Russ
> 
> > On Sep 12, 2020, at 2:08 AM, Tom Hans <tomhans18@gmail.com <mailto:tomhans18@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > does someone know a working implementation (library/product) for SMIME v4 (RFC 8551) ECC encryption?
> > 
> > It looks like that signing is no issue for everyone but I cannot found any encryption example.
> > 
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Tom
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