openssl/doc/man3/CMS_verify.pod
Dr. David von Oheimb d7d3dae694 CMS: add CMS_SignedData_verify(), a variant of CMS_verify() with extensions
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Belyavskiy <beldmit@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: David von Oheimb <david.von.oheimb@siemens.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/18667)
2022-07-16 08:15:49 +02:00

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=pod
=head1 NAME
CMS_verify, CMS_SignedData_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 *detached_data, BIO *out, unsigned int flags);
BIO *CMS_SignedData_verify(CMS_SignedData *sd, BIO *detached_data,
STACK_OF(X509) *scerts, X509_STORE *store,
STACK_OF(X509) *extra, STACK_OF(X509_CRL) *crls,
unsigned int flags,
OSSL_LIB_CTX *libctx, const char *propq);
STACK_OF(X509) *CMS_get0_signers(CMS_ContentInfo *cms);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
CMS_verify() verifies a B<CMS SignedData> structure
contained in a structure of type B<CMS_ContentInfo>.
I<cms> points to the B<CMS_ContentInfo> structure to verify.
I<certs> is a set of certificates in which to search for signing certificate(s).
I<store> is a trusted certificate store used for chain verification.
I<detached_data> refers to the content if the content is not present in I<cms>.
The content is written to the BIO I<out> if it is not NULL.
I<flags> is an optional set of flags, which can be used to modify the verify
operation.
CMS_SignedData_verify() is like CMS_verify() except that
it operates on B<CMS SignedData> input in the I<sd> argument,
it has some additional parameters described next,
and on success it returns the verfied content as a memory BIO.
The optional I<extra> parameter may be used to provide untrusted CA
certificates that may be helpful for chain building in certificate valiation.
This list of certificates must not contain duplicates.
The optional I<crls> parameter may be used to provide extra CRLs.
Also the list of CRLs must not contain duplicates.
The optional parameters library context I<libctx> and property query I<propq>
are used when retrieving algorithms from providers.
CMS_get0_signers() retrieves the signing certificate(s) from I<cms>; it may only
be called after a successful CMS_verify() or CMS_SignedData_verify() operation.
=head1 VERIFY PROCESS
Normally the verify process proceeds as follows.
Initially some sanity checks are performed on I<cms>. The type of I<cms> must
be SignedData. There must be at least one signature on the data and if
the content is detached I<detached_data> cannot be NULL.
An attempt is made to locate all the signing certificate(s), first looking in
the I<certs> parameter (if it is not NULL) and then looking in any
certificates contained in the I<cms> structure itself. If any signing
certificate cannot be located the operation fails.
Each signing certificate is chain verified using the I<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 I<store> any internal
CRLs are used in addition to attempting to look them up in I<store>. If any
chain verify fails an error code is returned.
Finally the signed content is read (and written to I<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 I<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 I<certs> parameter.
If B<CMS_NOCRL> is set and CRL checking is enabled in I<store> then any
CRLs in the message itself and provided via the I<crls> parameter are ignored.
If the B<CMS_TEXT> flag is set MIME headers for type C<text/plain> are deleted
from the content. If the content is not of type C<text/plain> then an error is
returned.
If B<CMS_NO_SIGNER_CERT_VERIFY> is set the signing certificates are not
verified, unless CMS_CADES flag is also set.
If B<CMS_NO_ATTR_VERIFY> is set the signed attributes signature is not
verified, unless CMS_CADES flag is also set.
If B<CMS_CADES> is set, each signer certificate is checked against the
ESS signingCertificate or ESS signingCertificateV2 extension
that is required in the signed attributes of the signature.
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 I<certs> parameter. In this case if the signer is not one of the
certificates supplied in I<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 I<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_SignedData_verify() returns a memory BIO containing the verfied content,
or NULL on error.
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<OSSL_ESS_check_signing_certs(3)>,
L<ERR_get_error(3)>, L<CMS_sign(3)>
=head1 HISTORY
CMS_SignedData_verify() was added in OpenSSL 3.1.
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2008-2021 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (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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