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SmimeUtil is missing the API to return the "Signed by <from-address>", which email clients generally display #5

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If you open a signed message in for example Outlook or Thunderbird, they will show a field right under "To:", named "Signed by:". After a lot of research, it turns out it is the subject of a certificate, the person's address to which the certificate was issued to.

I'll provide a pull-request that pulls out this subject from the first available certificate in the message (partially based on this SO answer):

X509Certificate cert = ...;

X500Name x500name = new JcaX509CertificateHolder(cert).getSubject();
RDN cn = x500name.getRDNs(BCStyle.CN)[0];

return IETFUtils.valueToString(cn.getFirst().getValue());

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