PKCS7_decrypt - decrypt content from a PKCS#7 envelopedData structure
#include <openssl/pkcs7.h> int PKCS7_decrypt(PKCS7 *p7, EVP_PKEY *pkey, X509 *cert, BIO *data, int flags);
PKCS7_decrypt(3openssl) OpenSSL PKCS7_decrypt(3openssl) NAME PKCS7_decrypt - decrypt content from a PKCS#7 envelopedData structure SYNOPSIS #include <openssl/pkcs7.h> int PKCS7_decrypt(PKCS7 *p7, EVP_PKEY *pkey, X509 *cert, BIO *data, int flags); DESCRIPTION PKCS7_decrypt() extracts and decrypts the content from a PKCS#7 envelopedData structure. pkey is the private key of the recipient, cert is the recipients certificate, data is a BIO to write the content to and flags is an optional set of flags. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+--------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+--------------------------+ |Availability | library/security/openssl | +---------------+--------------------------+ |Stability | Pass-through uncommitted | +---------------+--------------------------+ NOTES OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() (or equivalent) should be called before using this function or errors about unknown algorithms will occur. Although the recipients certificate is not needed to decrypt the data it is needed to locate the appropriate (of possible several) recipients in the PKCS#7 structure. The following flags can be passed in the flags parameter. If the PKCS7_TEXT flag is set MIME headers for type text/plain are deleted from the content. If the content is not of type text/plain then an error is returned. Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2ze.tar.gz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.openssl.org/. RETURN VALUES PKCS7_decrypt() returns either 1 for success or 0 for failure. The error can be obtained from ERR_get_error(3) BUGS PKCS7_decrypt() must be passed the correct recipient key and certificate. It would be better if it could look up the correct key and certificate from a database. The lack of single pass processing and need to hold all data in memory as mentioned in PKCS7_sign() also applies to PKCS7_verify(). SEE ALSO ERR_get_error(3), PKCS7_encrypt(3) HISTORY PKCS7_decrypt() was added to OpenSSL 0.9.5 1.0.2ze 2022-05-03 PKCS7_decrypt(3openssl)