Here is how I am doing it: uuencode /users/ali/$f_name $f_name \ | /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl smime -encrypt \ /users/email/Trob.pem \ | /usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The details tab seems to show the file just fine: begin 644 eei.zip [EMAIL PROTECTED](`"16CRZ,@ However Outlook does not show this as an attachment. Unencrypted it looks about the same but Outlook sees it as an attachment. Any ideas Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr. Stephen Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 2:38 PM Subject: Re: Encrypted attachments > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004, Dave wrote: > > > I am encrypting email attachments. I am on HP-UX 11.11 using openssl > > 0.9.7c. I can send unencrypted attachments. I am having trouble sending > > encrypted attachments to Outlook. When I look at the message source the > > attachment seems to be there but Outlook can not make sense of it. Any > > ideas? > > > > > > The encrypted entity has to include appropriate MIME headers. Several mail > clients wont display the content if it doesn't include MIME headers. > > In practice all you should need to concatenate some appropriate headers and > the base64 encoded content (openssl base64 can be used for that) and pipe the > result into 'openssl smime' (don't use the -binary switch). > > Try it without enncryption first so you can find a form your mail client will > tolerate. > > Steve. > -- > Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage > OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. > Funding needed! Details on homepage. > Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]