Evolution S/MIME failed to encode data

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I have a fresh Fedora 36 install. Installed Evolution-ews and imported my S/MIME certs, but when I try to sign or encrypt an email using it, I’m getting this error:

Could not create message.

You may need to select different mail options.

Detailed error: Uknown error. (-8011) - Failed to encode data

I’m running evolution 3.44.4

I have successfully used these keys on other systems (including a Gentoo system where these were originally imported). Are there particular libraries or software that is required to provide S/MIME signing and encryption? How would I get more detailed logs about what the problem is?

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Hi,
the error comes from the NSS library. Maybe the algorithm being used is not considered good enough by the crypto policies. Try to: sudo update-crypto-policies --set=LEGACY and then restart the machine, whether it’ll help anything.

With respect of detailed logging, I do not know what environment variables NSS uses, neither whether there are any. I’m sorry.
Bye,
Milan

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That works, but I’m curious which cipher it was that was missing. Ideally I’d like to add just that one so I can ensure that other insecure ciphers aren’t being used. Do you know if there’s a way to find that out?

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