SMIME
Angus Sutherland
certification in v6?
Currently our company uses v4.7# and we can't upgrade until this is
supported.....................
6.2?
Frank Hecker
> Does anyone know when Netscape is going to start support SMIME Email
> certification in v6?
This is really a question that should be directed to Netscape product
management; perhaps one of the Netscape people who read this newsgroup
can pass your question on to them.
As for when S/MIME will be included in Mozilla (which is the open source
product used as the basis for Netscape 6), see the following references:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/smime/
news://news.mozilla.org/3B586B94...@netscape.com
news://news.mozilla.org/3BAF66D9...@netscape.com
(You can also go to
http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en
and search for the term "S/MIME" in the group netscape.public.mozilla.crypto.)
To sum up the information referenced above: Mozilla already includes a toolkit to support internal handling of S/MIME messages; however the S/MIME toolkit is not yet hooked up to the Mozilla email client, and so is not usable by end users. Work is currently underway to enable the S/MIME toolkit to be used in the Mozilla email client, but that work is not yet finished, and is not yet complete enough even for beta testing. Netscape is a major contributor to Mozilla in general, and to the Mozilla S/MIME work in particular, so it seems reasonable that the Mozilla S/MIME work will eventually be reflected in Netscape 6. However to my knowledge Netscape has not yet publicly announced anything official about S/MIME support in Netscape 6, and so you'll have to try and contact someone within Netscape to get an answer.
Setting followups to netscape.public.mozilla.crypto.
Frank
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Frank Hecker
hec...@mozilla.org