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Is there a way to create a public certificate for a S/MIME email certificate?

I would like to share the public key on my website so people can send me encrypted emails. However I can only find "tutorials" where I need to send someone a signed mail first so their mail program can obtain the key. But I want to share my public key over HTTP so people don't have to ask for a signed mail in order to send an encrypted one. It is common to share public PGP keys, is S/MIME different in this aspect?

I have a S/MIME cert set up in Thunderbird but it can only export the whole (private) key.

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I realize it's 8 years old post, but we're still struggling with the data privacy here in 2021.

Here's an article I wrote about getting a public S/MIME certificate from a Trusted Certificate Authority on your Mac.

https://medium.com/reactivelions/best-ways-to-send-encrypted-email-in-2021-f76284db0d51

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