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