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=head1 NAME

CMS_verify, CMS_get0_signers - verify a CMS SignedData structure

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 #include <openssl/cms.h>

 int CMS_verify(CMS_ContentInfo *cms, STACK_OF(X509) *certs, X509_STORE *store,

                BIO *indata, BIO *out, unsigned int flags);

 STACK_OF(X509) *CMS_get0_signers(CMS_ContentInfo *cms);

=head1 DESCRIPTION

CMS_verify() verifies a CMS SignedData structure. B<cms> is the CMS_ContentInfo

structure to verify. B<certs> is a set of certificates in which to search for

the signing certificate(s). B<store> is a trusted certificate store used for

chain verification. B<indata> is the detached content if the content is not

present in B<cms>. The content is written to B<out> if it is not NULL.

B<flags> is an optional set of flags, which can be used to modify the verify

operation.

CMS_get0_signers() retrieves the signing certificate(s) from B<cms>, it must

be called after a successful CMS_verify() operation.

=head1 VERIFY PROCESS

Normally the verify process proceeds as follows.

Initially some sanity checks are performed on B<cms>. The type of B<cms> must

be SignedData. There must be at least one signature on the data and if

the content is detached B<indata> cannot be B<NULL>.

An attempt is made to locate all the signing certificate(s), first looking in

the B<certs> parameter (if it is not NULL) and then looking in any

certificates contained in the B<cms> structure itself. If any signing

certificate cannot be located the operation fails.

Each signing certificate is chain verified using the B<smimesign> purpose and

the supplied trusted certificate store. Any internal certificates in the message

are used as untrusted CAs. If CRL checking is enabled in B<store> any internal

CRLs are used in addition to attempting to look them up in B<store>. If any

chain verify fails an error code is returned.

Finally the signed content is read (and written to B<out> if it is not NULL)

and the signature's checked.

If all signature's verify correctly then the function is successful.

Any of the following flags (ored together) can be passed in the B<flags>

parameter to change the default verify behaviour.

If B<CMS_NOINTERN> is set the certificates in the message itself are not

searched when locating the signing certificate(s). This means that all the

signing certificates must be in the B<certs> parameter.

If B<CMS_NOCRL> is set and CRL checking is enabled in B<store> then any

CRLs in the message itself are ignored.

If the B<CMS_TEXT> flag is set MIME headers for type B<text/plain> are deleted

from the content. If the content is not of type B<text/plain> then an error is

returned.

If B<CMS_NO_SIGNER_CERT_VERIFY> is set the signing certificates are not

verified.

If B<CMS_NO_ATTR_VERIFY> is set the signed attributes signature is not

verified.

If B<CMS_NO_CONTENT_VERIFY> is set then the content digest is not checked.

=head1 NOTES

One application of B<CMS_NOINTERN> is to only accept messages signed by

a small number of certificates. The acceptable certificates would be passed

in the B<certs> parameter. In this case if the signer is not one of the

certificates supplied in B<certs> then the verify will fail because the

signer cannot be found.

In some cases the standard techniques for looking up and validating

certificates are not appropriate: for example an application may wish to

lookup certificates in a database or perform customised verification. This

can be achieved by setting and verifying the signers certificates manually

using the signed data utility functions.

Care should be taken when modifying the default verify behaviour, for example

setting B<CMS_NO_CONTENT_VERIFY> will totally disable all content verification

and any modified content will be considered valid. This combination is however

useful if one merely wishes to write the content to B<out> and its validity

is not considered important.

Chain verification should arguably be performed using the signing time rather

than the current time. However since the signing time is supplied by the

signer it cannot be trusted without additional evidence (such as a trusted

timestamp).

=head1 RETURN VALUES

CMS_verify() returns 1 for a successful verification and zero if an error

occurred.

CMS_get0_signers() returns all signers or NULL if an error occurred.

The error can be obtained from L<ERR_get_error(3)>

=head1 BUGS

The trusted certificate store is not searched for the signing certificate,

this is primarily due to the inadequacies of the current B<X509_STORE>

functionality.

The lack of single pass processing means that the signed content must all

be held in memory if it is not detached.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<ERR_get_error(3)>, L<CMS_sign(3)>

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2008-2019 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License").  You may not use

this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy

in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at

L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.

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