From 731c6802d7ec213eee896b659f24e1798d4dff40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dr. Stephen Henson" Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:13:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update docs. --- doc/crypto/SMIME_write_PKCS7.pod | 22 +++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/crypto/SMIME_write_PKCS7.pod b/doc/crypto/SMIME_write_PKCS7.pod index e20d46b5d1..5dd83ab791 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/SMIME_write_PKCS7.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/SMIME_write_PKCS7.pod @@ -15,10 +15,9 @@ SMIME_write_PKCS7 - convert PKCS#7 structure to S/MIME format. SMIME_write_PKCS7() adds the appropriate MIME headers to a PKCS#7 structure to produce an S/MIME message. -B is the BIO to write the data to. B is the appropriate -B structure. If cleartext signing (B) is -being used then the signed data must be supplied in the B -argument. B is an optional set of flags. +B is the BIO to write the data to. B is the appropriate B +structure. If streaming is enabled then the content must be supplied in the +B argument. B is an optional set of flags. =head1 NOTES @@ -32,15 +31,20 @@ If the B flag is set MIME headers for type B are added to the content, this only makes sense if B is also set. -If the B flag is set the signed data is finalized -and output along with the content. This flag should only be set -if B is also set and the previous call to PKCS7_sign() -also set these flags. +If the B flag is set streaming is performed. This flag should +only be set if B was also set in the previous call to +PKCS7_sign() or B. -If cleartext signing is being used and B not set then +If cleartext signing is being used and B not set then the data must be read twice: once to compute the signature in PKCS7_sign() and once to output the S/MIME message. +=head1 NOTES + +If streaming is performed the content is output in BER format using indefinite +length constructuted encoding except in the case of signed data with detached +content where the content is absent and DER format is used. + =head1 BUGS SMIME_write_PKCS7() always base64 encodes PKCS#7 structures, there -- 2.40.0