[openssl-users] CMS questions

[Richard Welty]

On 2/24/15 9:21 AM, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
>
> Typically you'd write the signed content to a memory BIO and then decrypt
> that. Precisely how you decrypt the enveloped data depends on the format. It
> might be in MIME format in which case you'd pass it through the MIME parser.
> Alternatively it could be enveloped data content type in which case you'd
> decode it as BER form.
>
> There are shortcuts you can make if, for example, you know the signed content
> is not detached and in BER form.
>
it will not be detached, and will be in BER form. shortcuts (as long as
they're
in a documented API) are welcome as this is in a path that should be fast.

thanks,
   richard

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