NAME

        CMS_encrypt - create a CMS envelopedData structure

SYNOPSIS

        #include <openssl/cms.h>

        CMS_ContentInfo *CMS_encrypt(STACK_OF(X509) *certs, BIO *in, const EVP_CIPHER *cipher, unsigned int flags);

DESCRIPTION

       CMS_encrypt() creates and returns a CMS EnvelopedData structure. certs is a list of recipient
       certificates. in is the content to be encrypted.  cipher is the symmetric cipher to use. flags is an
       optional set of flags.

NOTES

       Only certificates carrying RSA keys are supported so the recipient certificates supplied to this function
       must all contain RSA public keys, though they do not have to be signed using the RSA algorithm.

       EVP_des_ede3_cbc() (triple DES) is the algorithm of choice for S/MIME use because most clients will
       support it.

       The algorithm passed in the cipher parameter must support ASN1 encoding of its parameters.

       Many browsers implement a "sign and encrypt" option which is simply an S/MIME envelopedData containing an
       S/MIME signed message. This can be readily produced by storing the S/MIME signed message in a memory BIO
       and passing it to CMS_encrypt().

       The following flags can be passed in the flags parameter.

       If the CMS_TEXT flag is set MIME headers for type text/plain are prepended to the data.

       Normally the supplied content is translated into MIME canonical format (as required by the S/MIME
       specifications) if CMS_BINARY is set no translation occurs. This option should be used if the supplied
       data is in binary format otherwise the translation will corrupt it. If CMS_BINARY is set then CMS_TEXT is
       ignored.

       OpenSSL will by default identify recipient certificates using issuer name and serial number. If
       CMS_USE_KEYID is set it will use the subject key identifier value instead. An error occurs if all
       recipient certificates do not have a subject key identifier extension.

       If the CMS_STREAM flag is set a partial CMS_ContentInfo structure is returned suitable for streaming I/O:
       no data is read from the BIO in.

       If the CMS_PARTIAL flag is set a partial CMS_ContentInfo structure is returned to which additional
       recipients and attributes can be added before finalization.

       The data being encrypted is included in the CMS_ContentInfo structure, unless CMS_DETACHED is set in
       which case it is omitted. This is rarely used in practice and is not supported by SMIME_write_CMS().

NOTES

       If the flag CMS_STREAM is set the returned CMS_ContentInfo structure is not complete and outputting its
       contents via a function that does not properly finalize the CMS_ContentInfo structure will give
       unpredictable results.

       Several functions including SMIME_write_CMS(), i2d_CMS_bio_stream(), PEM_write_bio_CMS_stream() finalize
       the structure. Alternatively finalization can be performed by obtaining the streaming ASN1 BIO directly
       using BIO_new_CMS().

       The recipients specified in certs use a CMS KeyTransRecipientInfo info structure. KEKRecipientInfo is
       also supported using the flag CMS_PARTIAL and CMS_add0_recipient_key().

       The parameter certs may be NULL if CMS_PARTIAL is set and recipients added later using
       CMS_add1_recipient_cert() or CMS_add0_recipient_key().

RETURN VALUES

       CMS_encrypt() returns either a CMS_ContentInfo structure or NULL if an error occurred. The error can be
       obtained from ERR_get_error(3).

SEE ALSO

       ERR_get_error(3), CMS_decrypt(3)

HISTORY

       CMS_decrypt() was added to OpenSSL 0.9.8 The CMS_STREAM flag was first supported in OpenSSL 1.0.0.