Brad Buckingham wrote: > Hello, > > I have a quick question on the SMIME Toolkit. > I have a need to encode/decode messages > that are formatted based on CMS (RFC 2630). > > Based on the following web-page: > http://mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/smime/ > > one of the goals of the SMIME toolkit was to: > "Provide an API specifically for generating and > processing CMS messages." > > Has that goal been achieved?
Yes. It is now used by mozilla to send and receive CMS messages in SMIME emails. It is also used by other products for secure messaging, e.g. AIM 5.2 & 5.5.
> Can someone confirm whether or not it is feasible > to use the current APIs in NSS 3.9 to generate > as well as parse non-SMIME CMS messages?
Look at the test program named cmsutil in nss/lib/smimetools (which is misnamed). It generates and receives CMS messages, and serves as a
pretty good sample progam that uses the APIs.
> Thanks in advance, > > Brad Buckingham
/Nelson B
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