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[PATCH] Use S/MIME key from content for mail signing via OpenSSL

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Message #8 received at 67931 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Illia Ostapyshyn <illia <at> yshyn.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 67931 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67931: [PATCH] Use S/MIME key from content for mail signing
 via OpenSSL
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 13:05:46 -0800

Illia Ostapyshyn <illia <at> yshyn.com> writes:

> * Bug
>
> mml-smime-openssl-sign always takes the cdar of smime-keys, resulting in
> keyfile parameter of the #secure tag being ignored.  Hence, only the
> first entry of smime-keys is used, regardless of the mail contents or
> sender address.
>
> * Fix
>
> The relevant information (returned from mml-smime-openssl-sign-query) is
> already in the cont alist passed to mml-smime-openssl-sign, just use
> that instead.

Thanks for the patch.

Could you please provide a way to reproduce the issue that you're
seeing?  We don't have anyone onboard that is deeply familiar with this
code, I think, and it is security-sensitive.  Therefore, I'd like to be
careful when making changes here.

If we could have unit tests for this, it would be even better, of course.

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