#include <openssl/pkcs7.h> PKCS7 *PKCS7_encrypt(STACK_OF(X509) *certs, BIO *in, const EVP_CIPHER *cipher, int flags);
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 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 flags parameter.
If the PKCS7_TEXT flag is set MIME headers for type 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 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 PKCS7_BINARY is set then PKCS7_TEXT is ignored.
If the PKCS7_STREAM flag is set a partial PKCS7 structure is output suitable for streaming I/O: no data is read from the BIO in.
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 BIO directly using BIO_new_PKCS7().
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