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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/crypto/SMIME_write_PKCS7.pod')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/SMIME_write_PKCS7.pod b/doc/crypto/SMIME_write_PKCS7.pod index 2cfad2e049..61945b3887 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/SMIME_write_PKCS7.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/SMIME_write_PKCS7.pod @@ -30,18 +30,20 @@ If the B<PKCS7_TEXT> flag is set MIME headers for type B<text/plain> are added to the content, this only makes sense if B<PKCS7_DETACHED> is also set. -If cleartext signing is being used then the data must be read twice: -once to compute the signature in PKCS7_sign() and once to output the -S/MIME message. +If the B<PKCS7_PARTSIGN> flag is set the signed data is finalized +and output along with the content. This flag should only be set +if B<PKCS7_DETACHED> is also set and the previous call to PKCS7_sign() +also set these flags. + +If cleartext signing is being used and B<PKCS7_PARTSIGN> 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 BUGS SMIME_write_PKCS7() always base64 encodes PKCS#7 structures, there should be an option to disable this. -There should really be a way to produce cleartext signing using only -a single pass of the data. - =head1 RETURN VALUES SMIME_write_PKCS7() returns 1 for success or 0 for failure. |