NAME

       CMS_decrypt - decrypt content from a CMS envelopedData structure

SYNOPSIS

        #include <openssl/cms.h>

        int CMS_decrypt(CMS_ContentInfo *cms, EVP_PKEY *pkey, X509 *cert,
                        BIO *dcont, BIO *out, unsigned int flags);

DESCRIPTION

       CMS_decrypt() extracts and decrypts the content from a CMS EnvelopedData structure. pkey
       is the private key of the recipient, cert is the recipient's certificate, out is a BIO to
       write the content to and flags is an optional set of flags.

       The dcont parameter is used in the rare case where the encrypted content is detached. It
       will normally be set to NULL.

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 CMS structure.

       If cert is set to NULL all possible recipients are tried. This case however is
       problematic. To thwart the MMA attack (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA
       padding) all recipients are tried whether they succeed or not. If no recipient succeeds
       then a random symmetric key is used to decrypt the content: this will typically output
       garbage and may (but is not guaranteed to) ultimately return a padding error only. If
       CMS_decrypt() just returned an error when all recipient encrypted keys failed to decrypt
       an attacker could use this in a timing attack. If the special flag CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT is
       set then the above behaviour is modified and an error is returned if no recipient
       encrypted key can be decrypted without generating a random content encryption key.
       Applications should use this flag with extreme caution especially in automated gateways as
       it can leave them open to attack.

       It is possible to determine the correct recipient key by other means (for example looking
       them up in a database) and setting them in the CMS structure in advance using the CMS
       utility functions such as CMS_set1_pkey(). In this case both cert and pkey should be set
       to NULL.

       To process KEKRecipientInfo types CMS_set1_key() or CMS_RecipientInfo_set0_key() and
       CMS_RecipientInfo_decrypt() should be called before CMS_decrypt() and cert and pkey set to
       NULL.

       The following flags can be passed in the flags parameter.

       If the CMS_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

       CMS_decrypt() returns either 1 for success or 0 for failure.  The error can be obtained
       from ERR_get_error(3)

BUGS

       The lack of single pass processing and the need to hold all data in memory as mentioned in
       CMS_verify() also applies to CMS_decrypt().

SEE ALSO

       ERR_get_error(3), CMS_encrypt(3)

COPYRIGHT

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       Licensed under the OpenSSL license (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>.