openssl/doc/man3/PKCS12_parse.pod
David Woodhouse cff85f39e4 Document that PKCS#12 functions assume UTF-8 for passwords
Part of issue #3531

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3535)
2017-05-24 22:16:06 +02:00

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=pod
=head1 NAME
PKCS12_parse - parse a PKCS#12 structure
=head1 SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/pkcs12.h>
int PKCS12_parse(PKCS12 *p12, const char *pass, EVP_PKEY **pkey, X509 **cert, STACK_OF(X509) **ca);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
PKCS12_parse() parses a PKCS12 structure.
B<p12> is the B<PKCS12> structure to parse. B<pass> is the passphrase to use.
If successful the private key will be written to B<*pkey>, the corresponding
certificate to B<*cert> and any additional certificates to B<*ca>.
=head1 NOTES
The parameters B<pkey> and B<cert> cannot be B<NULL>. B<ca> can be <NULL> in
which case additional certificates will be discarded. B<*ca> can also be a
valid STACK in which case additional certificates are appended to B<*ca>. If
B<*ca> is B<NULL> a new STACK will be allocated.
The B<friendlyName> and B<localKeyID> attributes (if present) on each
certificate will be stored in the B<alias> and B<keyid> attributes of the
B<X509> structure.
The parameter B<pass> is interpreted as a string in the UTF-8 encoding. If it
is not valid UTF-8, then it is assumed to be ISO8859-1 instead.
In particular, this means that passwords in the locale character set
(or code page on Windows) must potentially be converted to UTF-8 before
use. This may include passwords from local text files, or input from
the terminal or command line. Refer to the documentation of
L<UI_OpenSSL(3)>, for example.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
PKCS12_parse() returns 1 for success and zero if an error occurred.
The error can be obtained from L<ERR_get_error(3)>
=head1 BUGS
Only a single private key and corresponding certificate is returned by this
function. More complex PKCS#12 files with multiple private keys will only
return the first match.
Only B<friendlyName> and B<localKeyID> attributes are currently stored in
certificates. Other attributes are discarded.
Attributes currently cannot be stored in the private key B<EVP_PKEY> structure.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<d2i_PKCS12(3)>
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2002-2016 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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