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3=head1 NAME
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5CMS_decrypt - decrypt content from a CMS envelopedData structure
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7=head1 SYNOPSIS
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9 #include <openssl/cms.h>
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11 int CMS_decrypt(CMS_ContentInfo *cms, EVP_PKEY *pkey, X509 *cert,
12                 BIO *dcont, BIO *out, unsigned int flags);
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14=head1 DESCRIPTION
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16CMS_decrypt() extracts and decrypts the content from a CMS EnvelopedData
17structure. B<pkey> is the private key of the recipient, B<cert> is the
18recipient's certificate, B<out> is a BIO to write the content to and
19B<flags> is an optional set of flags.
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21The B<dcont> parameter is used in the rare case where the encrypted content
22is detached. It will normally be set to NULL.
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24=head1 NOTES
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26Although the recipients certificate is not needed to decrypt the data it is
27needed to locate the appropriate (of possible several) recipients in the CMS
28structure.
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30If B<cert> is set to NULL all possible recipients are tried. This case however
31is problematic. To thwart the MMA attack (Bleichenbacher's attack on
32PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) all recipients are tried whether they succeed or
33not. If no recipient succeeds then a random symmetric key is used to decrypt
34the content: this will typically output garbage and may (but is not guaranteed
35to) ultimately return a padding error only. If CMS_decrypt() just returned an
36error when all recipient encrypted keys failed to decrypt an attacker could
37use this in a timing attack. If the special flag B<CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT> is set
38then the above behaviour is modified and an error B<is> returned if no
39recipient encrypted key can be decrypted B<without> generating a random
40content encryption key. Applications should use this flag with
41B<extreme caution> especially in automated gateways as it can leave them
42open to attack.
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44It is possible to determine the correct recipient key by other means (for
45example looking them up in a database) and setting them in the CMS structure
46in advance using the CMS utility functions such as CMS_set1_pkey(). In this
47case both B<cert> and B<pkey> should be set to NULL.
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49To process KEKRecipientInfo types CMS_set1_key() or CMS_RecipientInfo_set0_key()
50and CMS_RecipientInfo_decrypt() should be called before CMS_decrypt() and
51B<cert> and B<pkey> set to NULL.
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53The following flags can be passed in the B<flags> parameter.
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55If the B<CMS_TEXT> flag is set MIME headers for type B<text/plain> are deleted
56from the content. If the content is not of type B<text/plain> then an error is
57returned.
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59=head1 RETURN VALUES
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61CMS_decrypt() returns either 1 for success or 0 for failure.
62The error can be obtained from ERR_get_error(3)
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64=head1 BUGS
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66The lack of single pass processing and the need to hold all data in memory as
67mentioned in CMS_verify() also applies to CMS_decrypt().
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69=head1 SEE ALSO
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71L<ERR_get_error(3)>, L<CMS_encrypt(3)>
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73=head1 COPYRIGHT
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75Copyright 2008-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
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77Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License").  You may not use
78this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy
79in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
80L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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