mailer certificate retrieval via LDAP?

Alex Iliev sasho at cs.dartmouth.edu
Fri Jun 9 11:29:40 EDT 2006


On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:32:01PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Are there any common mailers -- open source preferred but not mandatory --
> that can query LDAP directories to retrieve X.509 certificates for use in
> S/MIME messages?  Evolution and Thunderbird are both able to send S/MIME,

This works for me in a vanilla (well, debian) Thunderbird, using our
university LDAP directory (at Dartmouth). The certificates are present under
key "userCertificate;binary" in the LDAP, in base64.

Alex

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