CMS vs SMIME

Tomas Mraz tomas at openssl.org
Fri Feb 3 09:36:27 UTC 2023


Yes, the smime utility is the legacy one. However it is not deprecated.

There was a suggestion to unify the CMS and SMIME code, but that is
work for future.


On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 19:21 -0600, Patrick Herbst wrote:
> I have an application need to send signed data. I'd like to use one
> of the container formats, but I'm not sure how to decide between
> openssl's SMIME or CMS utility.
> 
> What is the recommendation on the usage of these? Is one legacy?
> 
> Thanks
> 

-- 
Tomáš Mráz, OpenSSL



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