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Title "PKCS7_SIGN 3ossl"
way too many mistakes in technical documents.
The data to be signed is read from \s-1BIO\s0 data.
\fIflags is an optional set of flags.
Any of the following flags (ored together) can be passed in the flags parameter.
Many S/MIME clients expect the signed content to include valid \s-1MIME\s0 headers. If the \s-1PKCS7_TEXT\s0 flag is set \s-1MIME\s0 headers for type \*(C`text/plain\*(C' are prepended to the data.
If \s-1PKCS7_NOCERTS\s0 is set the signer's certificate and the extra certs will not be included in the \s-1PKCS7\s0 structure. The signer's certificate must still be supplied in the signcert parameter though. This can reduce the size of the signatures if the signer's certificates can be obtained by other means: for example a previously signed message.
The data being signed is included in the \s-1PKCS7\s0 structure, unless \fB\s-1PKCS7_DETACHED\s0 is set in which case it is omitted. This is used for \s-1PKCS7\s0 detached signatures which are used in S/MIME plaintext signed messages for example.
Normally the supplied content is translated into \s-1MIME\s0 canonical format (as required by the S/MIME specifications) if \s-1PKCS7_BINARY\s0 is set no translation occurs. This option should be used if the supplied data is in binary format otherwise the translation will corrupt it.
The signedData structure includes several PKCS#7 authenticatedAttributes including the signing time, the PKCS#7 content type and the supported list of ciphers in an SMIMECapabilities attribute. If \s-1PKCS7_NOATTR\s0 is set then no authenticatedAttributes will be used. If \s-1PKCS7_NOSMIMECAP\s0 is set then just the SMIMECapabilities are omitted.
If present the SMIMECapabilities attribute indicates support for the following algorithms: triple \s-1DES, 128\s0 bit \s-1RC2, 64\s0 bit \s-1RC2, DES\s0 and 40 bit \s-1RC2.\s0 If any of these algorithms is disabled then it will not be included.
If the flags \s-1PKCS7_STREAM\s0 is set then the returned \s-1PKCS7\s0 structure is just initialized ready to perform the signing operation. The signing is however \fBnot performed and the data to be signed is not read from the data parameter. Signing is deferred until after the data has been written. In this way data can be signed in a single pass.
If the \s-1PKCS7_PARTIAL\s0 flag is set a partial \s-1PKCS7\s0 structure is output to which additional signers and capabilities can be added before finalization.
If the flag \s-1PKCS7_STREAM\s0 is set the returned \s-1PKCS7\s0 structure is not complete and outputting its contents via a function that does not properly finalize the \s-1PKCS7\s0 structure will give unpredictable results.
Several functions including SMIME_write_PKCS7(), i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream(), \fBPEM_write_bio_PKCS7_stream() finalize the structure. Alternatively finalization can be performed by obtaining the streaming \s-1ASN1\s0 \s-1BIO\s0 directly using \fBBIO_new_PKCS7().
If a signer is specified it will use the default digest for the signing algorithm. This is \s-1SHA1\s0 for both \s-1RSA\s0 and \s-1DSA\s0 keys.
The certs, signcert and pkey parameters can all be \s-1NULL\s0 if the \s-1PKCS7_PARTIAL\s0 flag is set. One or more signers can be added using the function PKCS7_sign_add_signer(). PKCS7_final() must also be called to finalize the structure if streaming is not enabled. Alternative signing digests can also be specified using this method.
If signcert and pkey are \s-1NULL\s0 then a certificates only PKCS#7 structure is output.
In versions of OpenSSL before 1.0.0 the signcert and pkey parameters must not be \s-1NULL.\s0
\fBPKCS7_sign() is like PKCS7_sign_ex() except that it uses default values of \s-1NULL\s0 for the library context libctx and the property query propq. This is retained for \s-1API\s0 backward compatibility.
The \s-1PKCS7_PARTIAL\s0 flag, and the ability for certs, signcert, and pkey parameters to be \s-1NULL\s0 were added in OpenSSL 1.0.0.
The \s-1PKCS7_STREAM\s0 flag was added in OpenSSL 1.0.0.
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the \*(L"License\*(R"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file \s-1LICENSE\s0 in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.