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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2016-11-05 14:36:00 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2016-11-05 14:36:00 +0000 |
commit | 7cad6d9347802972aa3d38164cf20045ce2f90ae (patch) | |
tree | e79fc75a2ab9ec8fe1a18eac61ef2c05f9fe8efb /lib | |
parent | d1e5f947f01063112e18f24ba55cdfd5603ce839 (diff) |
add the missing content, sorry for committing an empty file
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-rw-r--r-- | lib/libcrypto/man/PKCS7_decrypt.3 | 69 |
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diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/man/PKCS7_decrypt.3 b/lib/libcrypto/man/PKCS7_decrypt.3 index e69de29bb2d..efc8454dde0 100644 --- a/lib/libcrypto/man/PKCS7_decrypt.3 +++ b/lib/libcrypto/man/PKCS7_decrypt.3 @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 5 2016 $ +.Dt PKCS7_DECRYPT 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm PKCS7_decrypt +.Nd decrypt content from a PKCS#7 envelopedData structure +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In openssl/pkcs7.h +.Ft int +.Fo PKCS7_decrypt +.Fa "PKCS7 *p7" +.Fa "EVP_PKEY *pkey" +.Fa "X509 *cert" +.Fa "BIO *data" +.Fa "int flags" +.Fc +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Fn PKCS7_decrypt +extracts and decrypts the content from a PKCS#7 envelopedData structure. +.Fa pkey +is the private key of the recipient, +.Fa cert +is the recipient's certificate, +.Fa data +is a +.Vt BIO +to write the content to and +.Fa flags +is an optional set of flags. +.Pp +.Xr OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms 3 +(or equivalent) should be called before using this function or errors +about unknown algorithms will occur. +.Pp +Although the recipient's certificate is not needed to decrypt the data, +it is needed to locate the appropriate (of possible several) recipients +in the PKCS#7 structure. +.Pp +If the +.Dv PKCS7_TEXT +.Fa flag +is set, MIME headers for type +.Sy text/plain +are deleted from the content. +If the content is not of type +.Sy text/plain , +an error is returned. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Fn PKCS7_decrypt +returns 1 for success or 0 for failure. +The error can be obtained from +.Xr ERR_get_error 3 +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr ERR_get_error 3 , +.Xr PKCS7_encrypt 3 +.Sh HISTORY +.Fn PKCS7_decrypt +was added to OpenSSL 0.9.5. +.Sh BUGS +.Fn PKCS7_decrypt +must be passed the correct recipient key and certificate. +It would be better if it could look up the correct key and certificate +from a database. +.Pp +The lack of single pass processing and need to hold all data in memory +as mentioned in +.Xr PKCS7_sign 3 +also applies to +.Xr PKCS7_decrypt 3 . |