bug#26587: 26.0.50; Gnus signs with false S/MIME key

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> When writing the message, I call (mml-secure-message-sign-smime).
> The "From:" field contains "Torsten Bronger
> <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de>".  My secret keys are:

OK, my first attempt at this ended up with Message not complaining at
all, but sending out a "signed" message with the following empty
signature:

--=-=-=
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7s


--=-=-=--

I've now made it bug out if it can't find any identity to sign with.

Now, for the bug you're seeing...  If I'm tracing the code right (and I
may well not be), this is what's used to find what name to sign with:

(defun mml-secure-signer-names (protocol sender)
  "Determine signer names for PROTOCOL and message from SENDER.
Returned names may be e-mail addresses or key IDs and are determined based
on `mml-secure-openpgp-signers' and `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender' with
OpenPGP or `mml-secure-smime-signers' and `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender'
with S/MIME."
  (if (eq 'OpenPGP protocol)
      (append mml-secure-openpgp-signers
              (if (and mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender sender)
                  (list (concat "<" sender ">"))))
    (append mml-secure-smime-signers
            (if (and mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender sender)
                (list (concat "<" sender ">"))))))

mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender defaults to nil, so it's normally not
used.  So this returns just the value of mml-secure-smime-signers.
What's that variable for you?

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