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diff --git a/doc/crypto/PKCS7_encrypt.pod b/doc/crypto/PKCS7_encrypt.pod deleted file mode 100644 index 2cd925a7e0b6..000000000000 --- a/doc/crypto/PKCS7_encrypt.pod +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +0,0 @@ -=pod - -=head1 NAME - -PKCS7_encrypt - create a PKCS#7 envelopedData structure - -=head1 SYNOPSIS - - #include <openssl/pkcs7.h> - - PKCS7 *PKCS7_encrypt(STACK_OF(X509) *certs, BIO *in, const EVP_CIPHER *cipher, int flags); - -=head1 DESCRIPTION - -PKCS7_encrypt() creates and returns a PKCS#7 envelopedData structure. B<certs> -is a list of recipient certificates. B<in> is the content to be encrypted. -B<cipher> is the symmetric cipher to use. B<flags> is an optional set of flags. - -=head1 NOTES - -Only RSA keys are supported in PKCS#7 and envelopedData 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. - -Some old "export grade" clients may only support weak encryption using 40 or 64 -bit RC2. These can be used by passing EVP_rc2_40_cbc() and EVP_rc2_64_cbc() -respectively. - -The algorithm passed in the B<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 -PKCS7_encrypt(). - -The following flags can be passed in the B<flags> parameter. - -If the B<PKCS7_TEXT> flag is set MIME headers for type B<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 B<PKCS7_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 B<PKCS7_BINARY> is set then -B<PKCS7_TEXT> is ignored. - -If the B<PKCS7_STREAM> flag is set a partial B<PKCS7> structure is output -suitable for streaming I/O: no data is read from the BIO B<in>. - -=head1 NOTES - -If the flag B<PKCS7_STREAM> is set the returned B<PKCS7> structure is B<not> -complete and outputting its contents via a function that does not -properly finalize the B<PKCS7> structure will give unpredictable -results. - -Several functions including SMIME_write_PKCS7(), i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream(), -PEM_write_bio_PKCS7_stream() finalize the structure. Alternatively finalization -can be performed by obtaining the streaming ASN1 B<BIO> directly using -BIO_new_PKCS7(). - -=head1 RETURN VALUES - -PKCS7_encrypt() returns either a PKCS7 structure or NULL if an error occurred. -The error can be obtained from ERR_get_error(3). - -=head1 SEE ALSO - -L<ERR_get_error(3)|ERR_get_error(3)>, L<PKCS7_decrypt(3)|PKCS7_decrypt(3)> - -=head1 HISTORY - -PKCS7_decrypt() was added to OpenSSL 0.9.5 -The B<PKCS7_STREAM> flag was first supported in OpenSSL 1.0.0. - -=cut |