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=head1 NAME
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CMS_verify, CMS_get0_signers - verify a CMS SignedData structure
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=head1 SYNOPSIS
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#include <openssl/cms.h>
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int CMS_verify(CMS_ContentInfo *cms, STACK_OF(X509) *certs, X509_STORE *store,
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BIO *indata, BIO *out, unsigned int flags);
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STACK_OF(X509) *CMS_get0_signers(CMS_ContentInfo *cms);
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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CMS_verify() is very similar to L<PKCS7_verify(3)>. It verifies a
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B<CMS SignedData> structure contained in a structure of type B<CMS_ContentInfo>.
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I<cms> points to the B<CMS_ContentInfo> structure to verify.
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The optional I<certs> parameter refers to a set of certificates
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in which to search for signing certificates.
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I<cms> may contain extra untrusted CA certificates that may be used for
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chain building as well as CRLs that may be used for certificate validation.
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I<store> may be NULL or point to
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the trusted certificate store to use for chain verification.
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I<indata> refers to the signed data if the content is detached from I<cms>.
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Otherwise I<indata> should be NULL and the signed data must be in I<cms>.
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The content is written to the BIO I<out> unless it is NULL.
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I<flags> is an optional set of flags, which can be used to modify the operation.
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CMS_get0_signers() retrieves the signing certificate(s) from I<cms>, it may only
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be called after a successful CMS_verify() operation.
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=head1 VERIFY PROCESS
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Normally the verify process proceeds as follows.
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Initially some sanity checks are performed on I<cms>. The type of I<cms> must
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be SignedData. There must be at least one signature on the data and if
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the content is detached I<indata> cannot be NULL.
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An attempt is made to locate all the signing certificate(s), first looking in
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the I<certs> parameter (if it is not NULL) and then looking in any
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certificates contained in the I<cms> structure unless B<CMS_NOINTERN> is set.
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If any signing certificate cannot be located the operation fails.
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Each signing certificate is chain verified using the I<smimesign> purpose and
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using the trusted certificate store I<store> if supplied.
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Any internal certificates in the message, which may have been added using
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L<CMS_add1_cert(3)>, are used as untrusted CAs.
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If CRL checking is enabled in I<store> and B<CMS_NOCRL> is not set,
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any internal CRLs, which may have been added using L<CMS_add1_crl(3)>,
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are used in addition to attempting to look them up in I<store>.
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If I<store> is not NULL and any chain verify fails an error code is returned.
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Finally the signed content is read (and written to I<out> unless it is NULL)
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and the signature is checked.
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If all signatures verify correctly then the function is successful.
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Any of the following flags (ored together) can be passed in the I<flags>
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parameter to change the default verify behaviour.
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If B<CMS_NOINTERN> is set the certificates in the message itself are not
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searched when locating the signing certificate(s).
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This means that all the signing certificates must be in the I<certs> parameter.
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If B<CMS_NOCRL> is set and CRL checking is enabled in I<store> then any
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CRLs in the message itself are ignored.
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If the B<CMS_TEXT> flag is set MIME headers for type B<text/plain> are deleted
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from the content. If the content is not of type B<text/plain> then an error is
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returned.
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If B<CMS_NO_SIGNER_CERT_VERIFY> is set the signing certificates are not
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chain verified.
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If B<CMS_NO_ATTR_VERIFY> is set the signed attributes signature is not
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verified.
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If B<CMS_NO_CONTENT_VERIFY> is set then the content digest is not checked.
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=head1 NOTES
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One application of B<CMS_NOINTERN> is to only accept messages signed by
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a small number of certificates. The acceptable certificates would be passed
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in the I<certs> parameter. In this case if the signer certificate is not one
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of the certificates supplied in I<certs> then the verify will fail because the
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signer cannot be found.
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In some cases the standard techniques for looking up and validating
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certificates are not appropriate: for example an application may wish to
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lookup certificates in a database or perform customised verification. This
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can be achieved by setting and verifying the signer certificates manually
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using the signed data utility functions.
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Care should be taken when modifying the default verify behaviour, for example
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setting B<CMS_NO_CONTENT_VERIFY> will totally disable all content verification
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and any modified content will be considered valid. This combination is however
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useful if one merely wishes to write the content to I<out> and its validity
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is not considered important.
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Chain verification should arguably be performed using the signing time rather
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than the current time. However, since the signing time is supplied by the
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signer it cannot be trusted without additional evidence (such as a trusted
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timestamp).
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=head1 RETURN VALUES
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CMS_verify() returns 1 for a successful verification and 0 if an error occurred.
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CMS_get0_signers() returns all signers or NULL if an error occurred.
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The error can be obtained from L<ERR_get_error(3)>
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=head1 BUGS
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The trusted certificate store is not searched for the signing certificate.
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This is primarily due to the inadequacies of the current B<X509_STORE>
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functionality.
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The lack of single pass processing means that the signed content must all
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be held in memory if it is not detached.
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=head1 SEE ALSO
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L<PKCS7_verify(3)>, L<CMS_add1_cert(3)>, L<CMS_add1_crl(3)>,
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L<OSSL_ESS_check_signing_certs(3)>,
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L<ERR_get_error(3)>, L<CMS_sign(3)>
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=head1 COPYRIGHT
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Copyright 2008-2022 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
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Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use
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this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
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in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
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L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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=cut
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