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Re: [Fed-Talk] CAC Patch 1.2 help requested



Stephen Bowman wrote:

    Second, the email address in each recipient's certificate must match
    the email address in the To:/CC:/BCC: line.  In addition, the case
    must match for the username portion (i.e., email@hidden
    <mailto:email@hidden> does not match email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>,
    but email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden> *does* match email@hidden
    <mailto:email@hidden>).  The reason for this is buried deep in
    RFC2822.  It's annoying, but technically is correct behavior.

    Third, *you* are always an unstated recipient of every mail you
    send, so the second point applies to your own email address and
    certificate as well.


Wouldn't be able to digitally sign if any of this were incorrect, right?

Address matching only applies to your own certificate when sending a signed message. If you can sign, your cert & mail config is fine.


If you can't encrypt, then it's one of the other recipients.

Most likely, anyway. And under the DoD PKI, most probably. We don't tend to update signing and encryption certificates because of email address changes--there are a *lot* of these changes, and it makes the CRLs more unmanageable than they already are. Outlook has an option to suppress this checking, so that's used instead.

I've tried to cajole Apple into implementing a similar option to no avail.

-- Tim

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 >Re: [Fed-Talk] CAC Patch 1.2 help requested (From: Gregory Adair <email@hidden>)
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 >Re: [Fed-Talk] CAC Patch 1.2 help requested (From: "Stephen Bowman" <email@hidden>)



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