1PKCS7_encrypt(3)                    OpenSSL                   PKCS7_encrypt(3)
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NAME

6       PKCS7_encrypt - create a PKCS#7 envelopedData structure
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SYNOPSIS

9        #include <openssl/pkcs7.h>
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11        PKCS7 *PKCS7_encrypt(STACK_OF(X509) *certs, BIO *in, const EVP_CIPHER *cipher, int flags);
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DESCRIPTION

14       PKCS7_encrypt() creates and returns a PKCS#7 envelopedData structure.
15       certs is a list of recipient certificates. in is the content to be
16       encrypted.  cipher is the symmetric cipher to use. flags is an optional
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NOTES

20       Only RSA keys are supported in PKCS#7 and envelopedData so the
21       recipient certificates supplied to this function must all contain RSA
22       public keys, though they do not have to be signed using the RSA
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25       EVP_des_ede3_cbc() (triple DES) is the algorithm of choice for S/MIME
26       use because most clients will support it.
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28       Some old "export grade" clients may only support weak encryption using
29       40 or 64 bit RC2. These can be used by passing EVP_rc2_40_cbc() and
30       EVP_rc2_64_cbc() respectively.
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32       The algorithm passed in the cipher parameter must support ASN1 encoding
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35       Many browsers implement a "sign and encrypt" option which is simply an
36       S/MIME envelopedData containing an S/MIME signed message. This can be
37       readily produced by storing the S/MIME signed message in a memory BIO
38       and passing it to PKCS7_encrypt().
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40       The following flags can be passed in the flags parameter.
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42       If the PKCS7_TEXT flag is set MIME headers for type text/plain are
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45       Normally the supplied content is translated into MIME canonical format
46       (as required by the S/MIME specifications) if PKCS7_BINARY is set no
47       translation occurs. This option should be used if the supplied data is
48       in binary format otherwise the translation will corrupt it. If
49       PKCS7_BINARY is set then PKCS7_TEXT is ignored.
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51       If the PKCS7_STREAM flag is set a partial PKCS7 structure is output
52       suitable for streaming I/O: no data is read from the BIO in.
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NOTES

55       If the flag PKCS7_STREAM is set the returned PKCS7 structure is not
56       complete and outputting its contents via a function that does not
57       properly finalize the PKCS7 structure will give unpredictable results.
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59       Several functions including SMIME_write_PKCS7(),
60       i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream(), PEM_write_bio_PKCS7_stream() finalize the
61       structure. Alternatively finalization can be performed by obtaining the
62       streaming ASN1 BIO directly using BIO_new_PKCS7().
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RETURN VALUES

65       PKCS7_encrypt() returns either a PKCS7 structure or NULL if an error
66       occurred.  The error can be obtained from ERR_get_error(3).
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SEE ALSO

69       ERR_get_error(3), PKCS7_decrypt(3)
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HISTORY

72       PKCS7_decrypt() was added to OpenSSL 0.9.5 The PKCS7_STREAM flag was
73       first supported in OpenSSL 1.0.0.
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771.0.0e                            2009-09-30                  PKCS7_encrypt(3)