PKCS7_DECRYPT(3ossl) OpenSSL PKCS7_DECRYPT(3ossl)
NAME
PKCS7_decrypt - decrypt content from a PKCS#7 envelopedData structure
SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/pkcs7.h>
int PKCS7_decrypt(PKCS7 *p7, EVP_PKEY *pkey, X509 *cert, BIO *data, int flags);
DESCRIPTION
PKCS7_decrypt(3) extracts and decrypts the content from a PKCS#7
envelopedData structure. pkey is the private key of the recipient, cert
is the recipients certificate, data is a BIO to write the content to
and flags is an optional set of flags.
NOTES
Although the recipients certificate is not needed to decrypt the data
it is needed to locate the appropriate (of possible several) recipients
in the PKCS#7 structure.
The following flags can be passed in the flags parameter.
If the PKCS7_TEXT flag is set MIME headers for type text/plain are
deleted from the content. If the content is not of type text/plain then
an error is returned.
RETURN VALUES
PKCS7_decrypt(3) returns either 1 for success or 0 for failure. The
error can be obtained from ERR_get_error(3)
BUGS
PKCS7_decrypt(3) 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.
The lack of single pass processing and need to hold all data in memory
as mentioned in PKCS7_sign() also applies to PKCS7_verify().
SEE ALSO
ERR_get_error(3), PKCS7_encrypt(3)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2002-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
3.3.2 2024-09-04 PKCS7_DECRYPT(3ossl)
openssl 3.3.2 - Generated Thu Sep 19 15:40:37 CDT 2024