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1 | .Dd $Mdocdate: November 3 2016 $ | ||
2 | .Dt PKCS7_VERIFY 3 | ||
3 | .Os | ||
4 | .Sh NAME | ||
5 | .Nm PKCS7_verify , | ||
6 | .Nm PKCS7_get0_signers | ||
7 | .Nd verify a PKCS#7 signedData structure | ||
8 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | ||
9 | .In openssl/pkcs7.h | ||
10 | .Ft int | ||
11 | .Fo PKCS7_verify | ||
12 | .Fa "PKCS7 *p7" | ||
13 | .Fa "STACK_OF(X509) *certs" | ||
14 | .Fa "X509_STORE *store" | ||
15 | .Fa "BIO *indata" | ||
16 | .Fa "BIO *out" | ||
17 | .Fa "int flags" | ||
18 | .Fc | ||
19 | .Ft STACK_OF(X509) * | ||
20 | .Fo PKCS7_get0_signers | ||
21 | .Fa "PKCS7 *p7" | ||
22 | .Fa "STACK_OF(X509) *certs" | ||
23 | .Fa "int flags" | ||
24 | .Fc | ||
25 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | ||
26 | .Fn PKCS7_verify | ||
27 | verifies a PKCS#7 signedData structure. | ||
28 | .Fa p7 | ||
29 | is the | ||
30 | .Vt PKCS7 | ||
31 | structure to verify. | ||
32 | .Fa certs | ||
33 | is a set of certificates in which to search for the signer's | ||
34 | certificate. | ||
35 | .Fa store | ||
36 | is a trusted certificate store (used for chain verification). | ||
37 | .Fa indata | ||
38 | is the signed data if the content is not present in | ||
39 | .Fa p7 , | ||
40 | that is if it is detached. | ||
41 | The content is written to | ||
42 | .Fa out | ||
43 | if it is not | ||
44 | .Dv NULL . | ||
45 | .Pp | ||
46 | .Fa flags | ||
47 | is an optional set of flags, which can be used to modify the verify | ||
48 | operation. | ||
49 | .Pp | ||
50 | .Fn PKCS7_get0_signers | ||
51 | retrieves the signer's certificates from | ||
52 | .Fa p7 . | ||
53 | It does | ||
54 | .Sy not | ||
55 | check their validity or whether any signatures are valid. | ||
56 | The | ||
57 | .Fa certs | ||
58 | and | ||
59 | .Fa flags | ||
60 | parameters have the same meanings as in | ||
61 | .Fn PKCS7_verify . | ||
62 | .Pp | ||
63 | Normally the verify process proceeds as follows. | ||
64 | .Pp | ||
65 | Initially some sanity checks are performed on | ||
66 | .Fa p7 . | ||
67 | The type of | ||
68 | .Fa p7 | ||
69 | must be signedData. | ||
70 | There must be at least one signature on the data and if the content | ||
71 | is detached, | ||
72 | .Fa indata | ||
73 | cannot be | ||
74 | .Dv NULL . | ||
75 | .Pp | ||
76 | An attempt is made to locate all the signer's certificates, first | ||
77 | looking in the | ||
78 | .Fa certs | ||
79 | parameter (if it is not | ||
80 | .Dv NULL ) | ||
81 | and then looking in any certificates contained in the | ||
82 | .Fa p7 | ||
83 | structure itself. | ||
84 | If any signer's certificates cannot be located the operation fails. | ||
85 | .Pp | ||
86 | Each signer's certificate is chain verified using the | ||
87 | .Sy smimesign | ||
88 | purpose and the supplied trusted certificate store. | ||
89 | Any internal certificates in the message are used as untrusted CAs. | ||
90 | If any chain verify fails an error code is returned. | ||
91 | .Pp | ||
92 | Finally, the signed content is read (and written to | ||
93 | .Fa out | ||
94 | is it is not | ||
95 | .Dv NULL ) | ||
96 | and the signature's checked. | ||
97 | .Pp | ||
98 | If all signature's verify correctly then the function is successful. | ||
99 | .Pp | ||
100 | Any of the following flags (OR'ed together) can be passed in the | ||
101 | .Fa flags | ||
102 | parameter to change the default verify behaviour. | ||
103 | Only the flag | ||
104 | .Dv PKCS7_NOINTERN | ||
105 | is meaningful to | ||
106 | .Fn PKCS7_get0_signers . | ||
107 | .Pp | ||
108 | If | ||
109 | .Dv PKCS7_NOINTERN | ||
110 | is set, the certificates in the message itself are not searched when | ||
111 | locating the signer's certificate. | ||
112 | This means that all the signer's certificates must be in the | ||
113 | .Fa certs | ||
114 | parameter. | ||
115 | .Pp | ||
116 | If the | ||
117 | .Dv PKCS7_TEXT | ||
118 | flag is set, MIME headers for type | ||
119 | .Sy text/plain | ||
120 | are deleted from the content. | ||
121 | If the content is not of type | ||
122 | .Sy text/plain , | ||
123 | then an error is returned. | ||
124 | .Pp | ||
125 | If | ||
126 | .Dv PKCS7_NOVERIFY | ||
127 | is set, the signer's certificates are not chain verified. | ||
128 | .Pp | ||
129 | If | ||
130 | .Dv PKCS7_NOCHAIN | ||
131 | is set, then the certificates contained in the message are not used as | ||
132 | untrusted CAs. | ||
133 | This means that the whole verify chain (apart from the signer's | ||
134 | certificate) must be contained in the trusted store. | ||
135 | .Pp | ||
136 | If | ||
137 | .Dv PKCS7_NOSIGS | ||
138 | is set, then the signatures on the data are not checked. | ||
139 | .Pp | ||
140 | One application of | ||
141 | .Dv PKCS7_NOINTERN | ||
142 | is to only accept messages signed by a small number of certificates. | ||
143 | The acceptable certificates would be passed in the | ||
144 | .Fa certs | ||
145 | parameter. | ||
146 | In this case, if the signer is not one of the certificates supplied in | ||
147 | .Fa certs , | ||
148 | then the verify will fail because the signer cannot be found. | ||
149 | .Pp | ||
150 | Care should be taken when modifying the default verify behaviour, for | ||
151 | example setting | ||
152 | .Dv PKCS7_NOVERIFY | PKCS7_NOSIGS | ||
153 | will totally disable all verification and any signed message will be | ||
154 | considered valid. | ||
155 | This combination is however useful if one merely wishes to write the | ||
156 | content to | ||
157 | .Fa out | ||
158 | and its validity is not considered important. | ||
159 | .Pp | ||
160 | Chain verification should arguably be performed using the signing time | ||
161 | rather than the current time. | ||
162 | However since the signing time is supplied by the signer, it cannot be | ||
163 | trusted without additional evidence (such as a trusted timestamp). | ||
164 | .Sh RETURN VALUES | ||
165 | .Fn PKCS7_verify | ||
166 | returns 1 for a successful verification and 0 or a negative value if | ||
167 | an error occurs. | ||
168 | .Pp | ||
169 | .Fn PKCS7_get0_signers | ||
170 | returns all signers or | ||
171 | .Dv NULL | ||
172 | if an error occurred. | ||
173 | .Pp | ||
174 | The error can be obtained from | ||
175 | .Xr ERR_get_error 3 . | ||
176 | .Sh SEE ALSO | ||
177 | .Xr ERR_get_error 3 , | ||
178 | .Xr PKCS7_sign 3 | ||
179 | .Sh HISTORY | ||
180 | .Fn PKCS7_verify | ||
181 | was added to OpenSSL 0.9.5 . | ||
182 | .Sh BUGS | ||
183 | The trusted certificate store is not searched for the signer's | ||
184 | certificate. | ||
185 | This is primarily due to the inadequacies of the current | ||
186 | .Vt X509_STORE | ||
187 | functionality. | ||
188 | .Pp | ||
189 | The lack of single pass processing and the need to hold all data | ||
190 | in memory as mentioned in | ||
191 | .Xr PKCS7_sign 3 | ||
192 | also applies to | ||
193 | .Fn PKCS7_verify . | ||