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Re: [smime] Enveloping for the sender.

2009-09-30 09:13:09
Peter Gutmann wrote:

Isn't this a rather obscure implementation-specific issue?  If you start
trying to enumerate every possible corner case of this kind in the spec, I
suspect you'd get a rather large, and never-quite-finished, document.  Even
then, how do you handle the situation where the private key is in a smart card
that's not presently inserted in the machine, or it's CC'd to the sender's
other email address at a location where they have the private key, or ...

I can buy that.  How about a BCP?  Is there a BCP for S/MIME?

-- Tim

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