Talk:Privacy-Enhanced Mail

MOSS
The link to MOSS should be removed or disambiguated. The only reasonable disambiguation would be to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, but that article doesn't suggest it is the appropriate target of the link. —Ksn 15:56, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Resolved above with new link to MIME Object Security Services —Ksn 00:59, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

When?
First sentence says "early". Is that 2005, 1995, 1885 or sthg else? 86.185.216.121 (talk) 15:24, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Ok, found answer. Will edit page. 86.185.216.121 (talk) 15:25, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Usage in SSL
Aren't pem files used in apache?

Are they related? Family Guy Guy (talk) 06:47, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I was wondering this too because the article on X.509 links here when it is talking about PEM files, which are a Base64 representation of the certificate binary data. (That's what you use in Apache HTTPD.)  It seems like the PEM format may have been developed originally for the Privacy-Enhanced Mail and the usage of this file extension for Base64-encoded X.509 certificates is a legacy of that?  If so this deserves a mention on the article, but I don't have a source proving this relationship. Jpp42 (talk) 12:45, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Spelling/case confusing
The title is Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail. It appears to be a proper noun, but should it be Privacy-enhanced electronic mail (as a common noun)? The article itself uses Privacy-enhanced Mail (without the "Electronic"). --Mortense (talk) 09:09, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Tone flag
That one long paragraph is a soft apple, with this at the core:


 * This is an IETF standard, a result of a group working for a long time. The basic idea ...

&mdash; MaxEnt 20:33, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Decoding examples with openssl
Use  to operate on certificate requests, and   to convert to text format:

$ openssl req -text <<__EOF__ -BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST- MIICXTCCAUUCAQAwGDEWMBQGA1UEAwwNaGkgd2lraXBlZGlhITCCASIwDQYJKoZI hvcNAQEBBQADggEPADCCAQoCggEBAMTwzCYD+iLlDwTu5Y43aQH9q1LF3kgot8I4 9ZgbFhDmCE4YlLhZKO4hieK6z8z+IfZjfapn01rzuzvTHESj5bSSU6AcEsKSOgTQ uB+KKn4mgngyBrJwWjr4IZ9XkGsCLAP2/wkyJC2ire6FuTSQ00YGhKf1B3WbIBbn 5i1rvZXnYxlheWlNSmxx54q4gTwcd/V4nS4BThYA/ypATjHS/gfQ650cOQzRK/Jh WfAbfnETYUpD6MCgZAIbaBuYvYpQEGqQ4niTvtSd07RHKnewcPFqJhMV86qN4HQY 4ZBNzQcF/2aCGHYyRniKznSDNijT2kaAz/L7ORqh+90qH/BLnKsCAwEAAaAAMA0G CSqGSIb3DQEBCwUAA4IBAQAqV5g9AZGXEbM97ouTGDJqFNP2QjO9ZK9J3BOUTrFO tMUrVWj+ixhC6vXD3o5uVL/fg6OlmK+13gsBpzg2mq72TBrZsNOK4+O0XvltIvSx 0H5tf1NYwuHxFgHDqgs/fQBOKFTadebJZHbPBtMrqlnenKYJiVb5YSWBZ7JKRCK7 VSgwNxxAMnSCNI0xF3EjZ1bjQkM8xGhnwe+n/RAd5Q2pMLIrquMoGMTUYLOq1xSB sGTp8iLWbbWPl6gC1hcSMpFsbdyjMCWs+a2R2F8QnahrRfvpgFEndvzA2EvqHIoR BHE1ChD7l691PxZP1eKA1I4AzZno5sb6SWyd8+pqY0oG -END CERTIFICATE REQUEST- __EOF__ Certificate Request: Data: Version: 1 (0x0) Subject: CN = hi wikipedia! Subject Public Key Info: Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption RSA Public-Key: (2048 bit) Modulus: 00:c4:f0:cc:26:03:fa:22:e5:0f:04:ee:e5:8e:37: [...]                       9c:ab Exponent: 65537 (0x10001) Attributes: a0:00 Signature Algorithm: sha256WithRSAEncryption 2a:57:98:3d:01:91:97:11:b3:3d:ee:8b:93:18:32:6a:14:d3: [...]

And use  to examine certificates:

$ openssl x509 -noout -text <<__EOF__ -BEGIN CERTIFICATE- MIICLDCCAdKgAwIBAgIBADAKBggqhkjOPQQDAjB9MQswCQYDVQQGEwJCRTEPMA0G A1UEChMGR251VExTMSUwIwYDVQQLExxHbnVUTFMgY2VydGlmaWNhdGUgYXV0aG9y aXR5MQ8wDQYDVQQIEwZMZXV2ZW4xJTAjBgNVBAMTHEdudVRMUyBjZXJ0aWZpY2F0 ZSBhdXRob3JpdHkwHhcNMTEwNTIzMjAzODIxWhcNMTIxMjIyMDc0MTUxWjB9MQsw CQYDVQQGEwJCRTEPMA0GA1UEChMGR251VExTMSUwIwYDVQQLExxHbnVUTFMgY2Vy dGlmaWNhdGUgYXV0aG9yaXR5MQ8wDQYDVQQIEwZMZXV2ZW4xJTAjBgNVBAMTHEdu dVRMUyBjZXJ0aWZpY2F0ZSBhdXRob3JpdHkwWTATBgcqhkjOPQIBBggqhkjOPQMB BwNCAARS2I0jiuNn14Y2sSALCX3IybqiIJUvxUpj+oNfzngvj/Niyv2394BWnW4X uQ4RTEiywK87WRcWMGgJB5kX/t2no0MwQTAPBgNVHRMBAf8EBTADAQH/MA8GA1Ud DwEB/wQFAwMHBgAwHQYDVR0OBBYEFPC0gf6YEr+1KLlkQAPLzB9mTigDMAoGCCqG SM49BAMCA0gAMEUCIDGuwD1KPyG+hRf88MeyMQcqOFZD0TbVleF+UsAGQ4enAiEA l4wOuDwKQa+upc8GftXE2C//4mKANBC6It01gUaTIpo= -END CERTIFICATE- __EOF__ Certificate: Data: Version: 3 (0x2) Serial Number: 0 (0x0) Signature Algorithm: ecdsa-with-SHA256 Issuer: C = BE, O = GnuTLS, OU = GnuTLS certificate authority, ST = Leuven, CN = GnuTLS certificate authority Validity Not Before: May 23 20:38:21 2011 GMT Not After : Dec 22 07:41:51 2012 GMT Subject: C = BE, O = GnuTLS, OU = GnuTLS certificate authority, ST = Leuven, CN = GnuTLS certificate authority Subject Public Key Info: Public Key Algorithm: id-ecPublicKey Public-Key: (256 bit) pub: 04:52:d8:8d:23:8a:e3:67:d7:86:36:b1:20:0b:09: [...]                       99:17:fe:dd:a7 ASN1 OID: prime256v1 NIST CURVE: P-256 X509v3 extensions: X509v3 Basic Constraints: critical CA:TRUE X509v3 Key Usage: critical Certificate Sign, CRL Sign X509v3 Subject Key Identifier: F0:B4:81:FE:98:12:BF:B5:28:B9:64:40:03:CB:CC:1F:66:4E:28:03 Signature Algorithm: ecdsa-with-SHA256 30:45:02:20:31:ae:c0:3d:4a:3f:21:be:85:17:fc:f0:c7:b2: [...]

--Elijah (talk) 20:17, 18 February 2020 (UTC)