Fix the S/MIME code to use canonical MIME format for

encrypted mail. Also update the smime docs.
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Dr. Stephen Henson 1999-12-15 01:26:17 +00:00
parent 3b14cb717d
commit 3fc9635ea7
2 changed files with 81 additions and 12 deletions

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@ -362,11 +362,8 @@ PKCS7 *PKCS7_encrypt(STACK_OF(X509) *certs, BIO *in, EVP_CIPHER *cipher,
}
}
for (;;) {
i = BIO_read(in, inbuf, sizeof(inbuf));
if (i <= 0) break;
BIO_write(p7bio, inbuf, i);
}
SMIME_crlf_copy(in, p7bio, flags);
BIO_flush(p7bio);
if (!PKCS7_dataFinal(p7,p7bio)) {

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@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ B<openssl> B<smime>
[B<-sign>]
[B<-verify>]
[B<-pk7out>]
[B<-des>]
[B<-des3>]
[B<-rc2-40>]
[B<-rc2-64>]
@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ B<-verify>. This directory must be a standard certificate directory: that
is a hash of each subject name (using B<x509 -hash>) should be linked
to each certificate.
=item B<-des3 -rc2-40 -rc2-64 -rc2-128>
=item B<-des -des3 -rc2-40 -rc2-64 -rc2-128>
the encryption algorithm to use. DES (56 bits), triple DES (168 bits)
or 40, 64 or 128 bit RC2 respectively if not specified 40 bit RC2 is
@ -137,9 +138,9 @@ option they are not included.
=item B<-binary>
normally the input message is converted to "canonical" format which is
effectively using CR and LF as end of line. When this option is present
no translation occurs. This is useful when handling binary data which may
not be in MIME format.
effectively using CR and LF as end of line: as required by the S/MIME
specification. When this option is present no translation occurs. This
is useful when handling binary data which may not be in MIME format.
=item B<-nodetach>
@ -193,22 +194,31 @@ headers and the output. Some mail programs will automatically add
a blank line. Piping the mail directly to sendmail is one way to
achieve the correct format.
The supplied message to be signed or encrypted must include the
necessary MIME headers: or many S/MIME clients wont display it
properly (if at all). You can use the B<-text> option to automatically
add plain text headers.
A "signed and encrypted" message is one where a signed message is
then encrypted. This can be produced by encrypting an already signed
message.
message: see the examples section.
This version of the program only allows one signer per message but it
will verify multiple signers on received messages. Some S/MIME clients
choke if a message contains mutiple signers. It is possible to sign
messages "in parallel" by signing an already signed message.
The options B<-encrypt> and B<-decrypt> reflect common usage in S/MIME
clients. Strictly speaking these process PKCS#7 enveloped data: PKCS#7
encrypted data is used for other purposes.
=head1 EXIT CODES
=over 4
=item 0
the operation was completely successful
the operation was completely successfully.
=item 1
@ -236,6 +246,68 @@ the signers certificates.
=head1 EXAMPLES
to be added.
Create a cleartext signed message:
openssl smime -sign -in message.txt -text -out mail.msg
-signer mycert.pem
Create and opaque signed message
openssl smime -sign -in message.txt -text -out mail.msg -nodetach
-signer mycert.pem
Create a signed message, include some additional certificates and
read the private key from another file:
openssl smime -sign -in in.txt -text -out mail.msg
-signer mycert.pem -inkey mykey.pem -certfile mycerts.pem
Send a signed message under Unix directly to sendmail, including headers:
openssl smime -sign -in in.txt -text -signer mycert.pem -from steve@openssl.org
-to someone@somewhere -subject "Signed message" | sendmail someone@somewhere
Verify a message and extract the signer's certificate if successful:
openssl smime -verify -in mail.msg -signer user.pem -out signedtext.txt
Send encrypted mail using triple DES:
openssl smime -encrypt -in in.txt -from steve@openssl.org -to someone@somewhere
-subject "Encrypted message" -des3 user.pem -out mail.msg
Sign and encrypt mail:
openssl smime -sign -in ml.txt -signer my.pem -text | openssl -encrypt -out mail.msg
-from steve@openssl.org -to someone@somewhere -subject "Signed and Encrypted message"
-des3 user.pem
Note: the encryption command does not include the B<-text> option because the message
being encrypted already has MIME headers.
Decrypt mail:
openssl smime -decrypt -in mail.msg -recip mycert.pem -inkey key.pem
=head1 BUGS
The MIME parser isn't very clever: it seems to handle most messages that I've thrown
at it but it may choke on others.
The code currently will only write out the signer's certificate to a file: if the
signer has a separate encryption certificate this must be manually extracted. There
should be some heuristic that determines the correct encryption certificate.
Ideally a database should be maintained of a certificates for each email address.
The code doesn't currently take note of the permitted symmetric encryption
algorithms as supplied in the SMIMECapabilities signed attribute. this means the
user has to manually include the correct encryption algorithm. It should store
the list of permitted ciphers in a database and only use those.
No revocation checking is done on the signer's certificate.
The current code can only handle S/MIME v2 messages, the more complex S/MIME v3
structures may cause parsing errors.
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