State of S/MIME support (emacs)

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu Sep 1 14:16:47 PDT 2016


On Thu 2016-09-01 15:32:07 -0400, Neale Pickett wrote:
> I just set up notmuch an hour ago and it seems like exactly what I need
> to better perform my project management job. Except I get a lot of
> S/MIME stuff.
>
> Web searching tells me there have been various attempts for S/MIME
> support. Before I dive into code, I thought I should ask if anybody else
> has been playing around with S/MIME, either in the command-line tools or
> in the emacs client. Specifically, I need to be able to decrypt S/MIME
> encrypted email.
>
> I'll refrain from expounding on how I *feel* about needing S/MIME.

Are you looking at S/MIME encrypted mail or just S/MIME signed mail?
there should be support for S/MIME signed mail already.  as bremner
says, it's the encrpytion layers that need work, and probably need the
work in gmime directly first.

     --dkg
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