Arshad Noor wrote:
> I would add another item to this useful list, despite the fact that
> it won't make it into the next release:
> 
>  - the ability to forward a signed message, and have the new recipient
>    verify the signature in the original message; if the forwarder added
>    their signature to it, then communicator would display the message
>    hierarchy with their respective signature verifications. 

Communicator does this already (try forwarding a signed message with 
signing on). I think the Mozilla UI may be different, since the signing 
status is in the header bar, rather than in the message (on the other 
hand it's harder to spoof a valid signature in Mozilla using gifs and 
javascript than in Communicator.

bob

> 
> Arshad
> 
> Robert Relyea wrote:
> 
>>Around this whole forwarding scheme, there are lots of different
>>semantics we could, and should, support. One would like the ability to
>>make a message so that it doesn't accidently reduce it's security
>>because someone forwarded (become decrypted on the wire). It would be
>>nice to just add the new recipients to the recipient list without
>>encrypting the whole message if possible. It would be nice to notice
>>that you are simply resending on old message, and mess with it at all.
>>Even better, it would be nice to at least give users the option of
>>forwarding encrypted mail even if they can't decrypt it (after the
>>appropriate approvals).
>>
>>I'm pretty sure none of this will be in Netscape 6.2, where the goal is
>>simply to get back to parity with Communicator in S/Mime support.
>>
>>bob
>>


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