Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to grips with S/MIME in Kmail

[gentuxx]

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Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to set up S/MIME in Kmail.  When I select the 'S/MIME
> Singing Certificate' field in Kmail/Identities/Cryptography/ it fails
> to find my key.
>
> The error pop up says:
> =============================
> Key Listing Failed - Kmail
> An error occurred while fetching the keys from the backend:
> General error
> =============================
>
> I click OK and:
> =============================
> No backends found for listing keys. Check your installation.
> =============================
>
> I generated my key pair following the Gentoo Gnupg user guide and had
> no problem entering the key in 'OpenPGP Signing Key' and 'OpenPGP
> encruption key', under the same Kmail crypto configuration tab.
>
> Are there any additional steps I need to undertake to make Kmail work
> with S/MIME?  Does it need different keys?  What backend is the above
> error referring to?
My understanding is that these are different key types.  S/MIME is
typically used for PKI type certificates, not GnuPG certificates.  You
would need a DoD or Verisign (or some other publicly recognized CA)
certificate to use S/MIME.  Depending on what you're trying to do,
GnuPG should be sufficient.

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gentux
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