5 PKCS7_encrypt - create a PKCS#7 envelopedData structure
9 #include <openssl/pkcs7.h>
11 PKCS7 *PKCS7_encrypt(STACK_OF(X509) *certs, BIO *in, const EVP_CIPHER *cipher, int flags);
15 PKCS7_encrypt() creates and returns a PKCS#7 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 RSA keys are supported in PKCS#7 and envelopedData so the recipient
22 certificates supplied to this function must all contain RSA public keys, though
23 they do not 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 Some old "export grade" clients may only support weak encryption using 40 or 64
29 bit RC2. These can be used by passing EVP_rc2_40_cbc() and EVP_rc2_64_cbc()
32 The algorithm passed in the B<cipher> parameter must support ASN1 encoding of
35 Many browsers implement a "sign and encrypt" option which is simply an S/MIME
36 envelopedData containing an S/MIME signed message. This can be readily produced
37 by storing the S/MIME signed message in a memory BIO and passing it to
40 The following flags can be passed in the B<flags> parameter.
42 If the B<PKCS7_TEXT> flag is set MIME headers for type B<text/plain> are
43 prepended to the data.
45 Normally the supplied content is translated into MIME canonical format (as
46 required by the S/MIME specifications) if B<PKCS7_BINARY> is set no translation
47 occurs. This option should be used if the supplied data is in binary format
48 otherwise the translation will corrupt it. If B<PKCS7_BINARY> is set then
49 B<PKCS7_TEXT> is ignored.
51 If the B<PKCS7_STREAM> flag is set a partial B<PKCS7> structure is output
52 suitable for streaming I/O: no data is read from the BIO B<in>.
56 If the flag B<PKCS7_STREAM> is set the returned B<PKCS7> structure is B<not>
57 complete and outputting its contents via a function that does not
58 properly finalize the B<PKCS7> structure will give unpredictable
61 Several functions including SMIME_write_PKCS7(), i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream(),
62 PEM_write_bio_PKCS7_stream() finalize the structure. Alternatively finalization
63 can be performed by obtaining the streaming ASN1 B<BIO> directly using
68 PKCS7_encrypt() returns either a PKCS7 structure or NULL if an error occurred.
69 The error can be obtained from ERR_get_error(3).
73 L<ERR_get_error(3)|ERR_get_error(3)>, L<PKCS7_decrypt(3)|PKCS7_decrypt(3)>
77 PKCS7_decrypt() was added to OpenSSL 0.9.5
78 The B<PKCS7_STREAM> flag was first supported in OpenSSL 1.0.0.