[openssl-users] How to turn on certain elements in CMS objects

[Dr. Stephen Henson]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016, Stephan M?hlstrasser wrote:

> So do I understand it correctly that OpenSSL currentls only supports
> RFC3278? Does that mean that it can't process CMS enveloped data
> objects that are created according to RFC5753?
> 

OpenSSL should be able to decrypt either RFC3278 or RFC5753 forms.

> In my other thread titled "Unable to decrypt CMS object encrypted
> with EC prime256v1 certificate" the CMS object that cannot be
> decrypted with OpenSSL does contain the EC parameters. Can that be
> related to the problem?
> 

It shouldn't affect OpenSSL's ability to decrypt the object as that
information is not used anywhere in the key derivation.

Steve.
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