[Alpine-info] Signing with S/MIME.

Eduardo Chappa alpine.chappa at yandex.com
Sun Nov 19 12:10:44 PST 2023


On Sun, 19 Nov 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote:


> And today I have noticed that my email is not listed in the certificate,

> despite me asking for it. That could be the reason.


That is certainly relevant. S/MIME certificates are meant to verify the
email address, not people. Sure, you can verify people besides email
addresses, but the only thing that you can reliably certify is the email
address in a S/MIME message. I think you should pursue that line.

--
Eduardo



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