Recently i've been working on S/MIME support for the mutt email client, and
several users have been asking me about problems with email addresses that
don't perfectly match those in their certificates.
For example, a user with the address foo(_at_)example(_dot_)com may want to use
foo+ietf-smime(_at_)example(_dot_)com when posting here, so that they can keep
track of
where spam harvesters are gathering their address from -- many mail delivery
agents strip off "+" and anything after it before matching a username.
Searching through the list archives and elsewhere on the web, i've found
much discussion circa 1998 about whether or not S/MIME should support
wildcards in email certificates, but no resolution. What is the current
status on this? Is there a workaround?
Thanks
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Mike Schiraldi
VeriSign Applied Research
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