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10.6: Sign and encrypt emails in Mail via thawte
There's a much easier way to get yourself a X.509 certificate for using S/MIME with Apple Mail:
This is what is done, when requesting a certificate:
If you're using Firefox i.e. the certificate and private key will be saved in Firefox. You have to go to Preferences -> Security -> View certificates and export your email certificate. After that you could double click on it in Finder and it will be imported to your keychain.
10.6: Sign and encrypt emails in Mail via thawte
So to be clear. The private key is generated on your own machine and never leaves your computer during this process. Only a certificate signing request containing your public key will be sent to Thawte.
10.6: Sign and encrypt emails in Mail via thawte
Thanks for the write-up.
10.6:ECA Certs broken?
ECA/DOD X.509 certs seem to have become broken in MacOS 10.6.
Reading encrypted email, signing work fine. Encrypting breaks. These are certs used by contractors. Like many other organizations (e.g. certain State Governments) they are rather standard certs but have special chains of trust and are not available except from certain vendors. One of the few workarounds I know is to send encypted email via Entrourage. I suspect the extreme future dates in the chain of trust certs might be the issue but don't know why they worked in 10.3-10.5 and now are broken. I and several other Mac users would be very very happy to learn we are just forgetting to do something.
10.6:ECA Certs broken?
Does anyone have any additional information on encrypting email in Mac Mail using a Verisign ECA/DoD certificate? Address Book indicates that a certificate is associated with the email address in question. I'm also able to decrypt mail sent to me. When I attempt to send an email to a recipient, whose public cert I have, the encrypt and sign buttons are shown but grayed out. Edited on Dec 07, '09 02:02:35PM by ccannell
10.6:ECA Certs broken?
See http://yank.to/Musings/Miscellaneous/Certificates and OS X Mail/
10.6: Sign and encrypt emails in Mail via thawte
i have been using thawte freemail certs for several years and now i have a replacement cert from verisign. i just noticed however that mail.app is still sending out my old thawte cert in my outgoing email when i choose to sign a message. |
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