[Pkg-openssl-devel] Please enable CMS support in the openssl package for squeeze

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Thu Nov 11 11:54:19 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 03:36:20AM -0800, Harakiri wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> by default the CMS utility is compiled
> http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/cms.html#
> 
> the CMS utility suceeds the smime utility.
> 
> It is needed to decrypt messages from Outlook 2010 because Microsoft sents encrypted messages by default using the CMS format, you will be unable to decrypt messages on debian from outlook.
> 
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2142236
> 
> Can you please build the default package for the upcoming release with
> 
> ./config enable-cms
> 
> It would be a shame to miss out this important feature and do custom openssl builds without security patches.

Could you please file a bug against the openssl package requesting
this so that I don't forget this?


Kurt




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