This sounds interesting...

Thanks

--Alain
On Sep 29, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Osterweil, Eric wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> A few of us at Verisign (actually, that would be Lynch Davis) have been 
> working on a prototype for the SMIMEA draft.  We have written a general 
> library+API, we have integrated it into Thunderbird, and have begun 
> integrating into Mail.app.  Our plans are to publish this as open source at 
> some point after the DANE workshop that will be taking place at ICANN 51 
> (where we will be demo'ing it).  We ran into numerous interesting wrinkles 
> and made some specific design choices, but at a high level the S/MIME 
> prototype:
> - can sign
> - can encrypt
> - can decrypt (without writing clear text to disk)
> - can verify
> - and supports several features that are enabled through suggested additions.
> 
> With the foresight that zones may need to be delegated to accommodate churn 
> and scale, some certificates may need to be selectively authenticated or 
> deauthenticated (perhaps on a per-user basis), and the locations of 
> certificate information may need to be managed in different places (some in 
> the DNS, some in external locations), etc. we have made some operational 
> choices to modify elements of the draft in our prototype.  We intend to 
> detail these in a follow-on email.
> 
> We're hoping to show this off at the upcoming IETF too.
> 
> Eric
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