1CMS_encrypt(3) OpenSSL CMS_encrypt(3)
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6 CMS_encrypt - create a CMS envelopedData structure
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9 #include <openssl/cms.h>
10 CMS_ContentInfo *CMS_encrypt(STACK_OF(X509) *certs, BIO *in, const EVP_CIPHER *cipher, unsigned int flags);
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14 CMS_encrypt() creates and returns a CMS EnvelopedData structure. certs
15 is a list of recipient certificates. in is the content to be encrypted.
16 cipher is the symmetric cipher to use. flags is an optional set of
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20 Only certificates carrying RSA keys are supported so the recipient
21 certificates supplied to this function must all contain RSA public
22 keys, though they do not have to be signed using the RSA algorithm.
23 EVP_des_ede3_cbc() (triple DES) is the algorithm of choice for S/MIME
25 use because most clients will support it.
26 The algorithm passed in the cipher parameter must support ASN1 encoding
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29 Many browsers implement a "sign and encrypt" option which is simply an
31 S/MIME envelopedData containing an S/MIME signed message. This can be
32 readily produced by storing the S/MIME signed message in a memory BIO
33 and passing it to CMS_encrypt().
34 The following flags can be passed in the flags parameter.
36 If the CMS_TEXT flag is set MIME headers for type text/plain are
38 prepended to the data.
39 Normally the supplied content is translated into MIME canonical format
41 (as required by the S/MIME specifications) if CMS_BINARY is set no
42 translation occurs. This option should be used if the supplied data is
43 in binary format otherwise the translation will corrupt it. If
44 CMS_BINARY is set then CMS_TEXT is ignored.
45 OpenSSL will by default identify recipient certificates using issuer
47 name and serial number. If CMS_USE_KEYID is set it will use the subject
48 key identifier value instead. An error occurs if all recipient
49 certificates do not have a subject key identifier extension.
50 If the CMS_STREAM flag is set a partial CMS_ContentInfo structure is
52 returned suitable for streaming I/O: no data is read from the BIO in.
53 If the CMS_PARTIAL flag is set a partial CMS_ContentInfo structure is
55 returned to which additional recipients and attributes can be added
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57 The data being encrypted is included in the CMS_ContentInfo structure,
59 unless CMS_DETACHED is set in which case it is omitted. This is rarely
60 used in practice and is not supported by SMIME_write_CMS().
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63 If the flag CMS_STREAM is set the returned CMS_ContentInfo structure is
64 not complete and outputting its contents via a function that does not
65 properly finalize the CMS_ContentInfo structure will give unpredictable
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67 Several functions including SMIME_write_CMS(), i2d_CMS_bio_stream(),
69 PEM_write_bio_CMS_stream() finalize the structure. Alternatively
70 finalization can be performed by obtaining the streaming ASN1 BIO
71 directly using BIO_new_CMS().
72 The recipients specified in certs use a CMS KeyTransRecipientInfo info
74 structure. KEKRecipientInfo is also supported using the flag
75 CMS_PARTIAL and CMS_add0_recipient_key().
76 The parameter certs may be NULL if CMS_PARTIAL is set and recipients
78 added later using CMS_add1_recipient_cert() or
79 CMS_add0_recipient_key().
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82 CMS_encrypt() returns either a CMS_ContentInfo structure or NULL if an
83 error occurred. The error can be obtained from ERR_get_error(3).
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86 ERR_get_error(3), CMS_decrypt(3)
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89 CMS_decrypt() was added to OpenSSL 0.9.8 The CMS_STREAM flag was first
90 supported in OpenSSL 1.0.0.
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