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authorDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2015-02-24 16:35:37 +0000
committerDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2015-03-08 16:19:38 +0000
commit876ed1057438cf691646848ab6b8842663944218 (patch)
tree060ae301a7b83b7f9a27c7f9cd9fd6bbe56bead5
parentbc2e18a3c818ae7e2d8c996b6648aa4ae8e3ee28 (diff)
downloadopenssl-new-876ed1057438cf691646848ab6b8842663944218.tar.gz
Additional CMS documentation.
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> (cherry picked from commit e3013932df2d899e8600c305342bc14b682dc0d1)
-rw-r--r--doc/crypto/CMS_get0_type.pod22
-rw-r--r--doc/crypto/d2i_CMS_ContentInfo.pod29
2 files changed, 47 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/CMS_get0_type.pod b/doc/crypto/CMS_get0_type.pod
index 8ff1c3115c..3ed92bdbbe 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/CMS_get0_type.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/CMS_get0_type.pod
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
=head1 NAME
- CMS_get0_type, CMS_set1_eContentType, CMS_get0_eContentType - get and set CMS content types
+ CMS_get0_type, CMS_set1_eContentType, CMS_get0_eContentType, CMS_get0_content - get and set CMS content types and content
=head1 SYNOPSIS
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
const ASN1_OBJECT *CMS_get0_type(CMS_ContentInfo *cms);
int CMS_set1_eContentType(CMS_ContentInfo *cms, const ASN1_OBJECT *oid);
const ASN1_OBJECT *CMS_get0_eContentType(CMS_ContentInfo *cms);
+ ASN1_OCTET_STRING **CMS_get0_content(CMS_ContentInfo *cms);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -26,11 +27,15 @@ undefined.
ASN1_OBJECT *CMS_get0_eContentType() returns a pointer to the embedded
content type.
+CMS_get0_content() returns a pointer to the B<ASN1_OCTET_STRING> pointer
+containing the embedded content.
+
=head1 NOTES
-As the B<0> implies CMS_get0_type() and CMS_get0_eContentType() return internal
-pointers which should B<not> be freed up. CMS_set1_eContentType() copies the
-supplied OID and it B<should> be freed up after use.
+As the B<0> implies CMS_get0_type(), CMS_get0_eContentType() and
+CMS_get0_content() return internal pointers which should B<not> be freed up.
+CMS_set1_eContentType() copies the supplied OID and it B<should> be freed up
+after use.
The B<ASN1_OBJECT> values returned can be converted to an integer B<NID> value
using OBJ_obj2nid(). For the currently supported content types the following
@@ -43,6 +48,15 @@ values are returned:
NID_pkcs7_encrypted
NID_pkcs7_enveloped
+The return value of CMS_get0_content() is a pointer to the B<ASN1_OCTET_STRING>
+content pointer. That means that for example:
+
+ ASN1_OCTET_STRING **pconf = CMS_get0_content(cms);
+
+B<*pconf> could be NULL if there is no embedded content. Applications can
+access, modify or create the embedded content in a B<CMS_ContentInfo> structure
+using this function. Applications usually will not need to modify the
+embedded content as it is normally set by higher level functions.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
diff --git a/doc/crypto/d2i_CMS_ContentInfo.pod b/doc/crypto/d2i_CMS_ContentInfo.pod
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6ddb2f6d05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/crypto/d2i_CMS_ContentInfo.pod
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+=pod
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+d2i_CMS_ContentInfo, i2d_CMS_ContentInfo - CMS ContentInfo functions
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+ #include <openssl/cms.h>
+
+ CMS_ContentInfo *d2i_CMS_ContentInfo(CMS_ContentInfo **a, unsigned char **pp, long length);
+ int i2d_CMS_ContentInfo(CMS_ContentInfo *a, unsigned char **pp);
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+These functions decode and encode an CMS ContentInfo structure.
+
+Otherwise they behave in a similar way to d2i_X509() and i2d_X509()
+described in the L<d2i_X509(3)|d2i_X509(3)> manual page.
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+L<d2i_X509(3)|d2i_X509(3)>
+
+=head1 HISTORY
+
+These functions were first added to OpenSSL 0.9.8
+
+=cut