156616 - E-Mail-Addresses from certificates are transformed to lower case

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 130692

(MailNews Core :: Security: S/MIME, defect)

Description

[Timo A. Hummel]

When using Mail to compose a new E-Mail and the certificate which will be used
to encrypt the message, Mail (I guess it's a problem of the library) takes a
lower-cased variant of the E-Mail-Address specified in the certificate which
causes that encryption will fail. When looking at the certificate manager, the
E-Mail-Address also appears lowercase, but if you look at details, it is shown
correctly. Mozilla Version is 1.0 (I couldn't select any version in Bugzilla,
shows always "other" there).

Comment 1

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

->PSM

Comment 2

[Stephane Saux]

the case of email addresses in certificates is not relevant.
Although rfc 822 makes the local part of addresses case-sensitive, a study of
the market shows that in usage they are not.
We therefore compare emails addresses lower case.

Comment 3

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

Timo, what you see is bug 130692. The problem was not fixed in the Mozilla 1.0
release.

But it has meanwhile been fixed in the 1.0 branch. Please download and test a
build from the stable 1.0 branch:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.0/


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130692 ***

Comment 4

[Charles Rosendahl]

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