279352 - properly display "smime-type=signed-receipt" inside "application/x-pkcs7-mime"

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Ralf Hauser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

As per the above URL Outlook 2003 is created signed receipts of type 

Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-mime;
	smime-type=signed-receipt;
	name="smime.p7m"

When receiving such a receipt, Thunderbird is not capable to display the
signature properly and shows the icon "key with a x-ed red dot"

Reproducible: Always




http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2311.html defines application/x-pkcs7-mime but
astonishingly, it and 
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2315.html do not mention "smime-type=signed-receipt".

Comment 1

[Ralf Hauser]

Attachment: receipts.eml.zip

here an example of the message thunderbird got from my outlook and the receipt
an outlook generated in response to that message.

Since I found no "Disposition-Notification-To" header or alike
I assume the fact that such a signed receipt shall be returned is coded in a
proprietary way into Outlooks long "Message-ID" header.

Comment 2

[Ralf Hauser]

as per http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2634.html
receiptRequest attribute to the signedAttributes field of the SignerInfo object
should trigger the creation of such a receipt.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Ralf Hauser]

openssl unfortunately cannot do this either, they make this dependent on the v3 smime as per https://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=1384 .

BC has been alerted to this in http://www.bouncycastle.org/devmailarchive/msg04034.html 

Comment 6

[Bob Lord]

I assume this bug report is still valid (since it's an RFE)?

Comment 7

[Raphaël Fairise]

This issue will be resolved with bug 386313.