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3=head1 NAME
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5BIO_new_CMS - CMS streaming filter BIO
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7=head1 SYNOPSIS
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9 #include <openssl/cms.h>
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11 BIO *BIO_new_CMS(BIO *out, CMS_ContentInfo *cms);
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13=head1 DESCRIPTION
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15BIO_new_CMS() returns a streaming filter BIO chain based on B<cms>. The output
16of the filter is written to B<out>. Any data written to the chain is
17automatically translated to a BER format CMS structure of the appropriate type.
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19=head1 NOTES
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21The chain returned by this function behaves like a standard filter BIO. It
22supports non blocking I/O. Content is processed and streamed on the fly and not
23all held in memory at once: so it is possible to encode very large structures.
24After all content has been written through the chain BIO_flush() must be called
25to finalise the structure.
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27The B<CMS_STREAM> flag must be included in the corresponding B<flags>
28parameter of the B<cms> creation function.
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30If an application wishes to write additional data to B<out> BIOs should be
31removed from the chain using BIO_pop() and freed with BIO_free() until B<out>
32is reached. If no additional data needs to be written BIO_free_all() can be
33called to free up the whole chain.
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35Any content written through the filter is used verbatim: no canonical
36translation is performed.
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38It is possible to chain multiple BIOs to, for example, create a triple wrapped
39signed, enveloped, signed structure. In this case it is the applications
40responsibility to set the inner content type of any outer CMS_ContentInfo
41structures.
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43Large numbers of small writes through the chain should be avoided as this will
44produce an output consisting of lots of OCTET STRING structures. Prepending
45a BIO_f_buffer() buffering BIO will prevent this.
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47=head1 BUGS
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49There is currently no corresponding inverse BIO: i.e. one which can decode
50a CMS structure on the fly.
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52=head1 RETURN VALUES
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54BIO_new_CMS() returns a BIO chain when successful or NULL if an error
55occurred. The error can be obtained from ERR_get_error(3).
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57=head1 SEE ALSO
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59L<ERR_get_error(3)>, L<CMS_sign(3)>,
60L<CMS_encrypt(3)>
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62=head1 HISTORY
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64The BIO_new_CMS() function was added in OpenSSL 1.0.0.
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66=head1 COPYRIGHT
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68Copyright 2008-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
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70Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License").  You may not use
71this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy
72in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
73L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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