!!! Overview S/MIME ([{$pagename}]) is __secure__ [Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions] ([MIME])* [IETF] Standard for "secure electronic mail" * [Digital Signatures] ** Need canonical form of message to be signed * [Encryption] * Other information for recipient ** [Certificates] for verification ** Sender's public encryption key ([certificate]) ** Sender's [Cryptographic] [algorithms] !! [Example] S/MIME (Signed) %%prettify {{{ From: Eric Norman <ejnorman@doit.wisc.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary=Apple-Mail-3-2162327; micalg=sha1 --Apple-Mail-3-2162327 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message text --Apple-Mail-3-2162327 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7s MIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAqCAMIACAQExCzAJBgUrDgMCGgUAMIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAQAAoIIGQzCCAsMw ggIsoAMCAQICAgMzMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBAUAMIG3MQswCQYDVQQGEwJVUzESMBAGA1UECBMJV2lz ... snip ... icLcyxUobN5sT+ttMbm1S6Q+6wAAAAAAAA== --Apple-Mail-3-2162327-- }}} /%!! More Information There might be more information for this subject on one of the following: [{ReferringPagesPlugin before='*' after='\n' }]