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authorDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2013-06-21 23:24:25 +0100
committerDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2013-10-01 14:01:18 +0100
commitdddb38834ec69a241ff4079d22251956401d855d (patch)
tree2f26fdd34617f7564abda953f2f59dbf82cead8b
parentaf7d6b936b4020cf433a0bb20f911f9e03576e50 (diff)
downloadopenssl-new-dddb38834ec69a241ff4079d22251956401d855d.tar.gz
Update cms docs.
Document use of -keyopt to use RSA-PSS and RSA-OAEP modes. (cherry picked from commit 4bf4a6501c6ca3fa1853f07c82e0e9cfe22dee45)
-rw-r--r--doc/apps/cms.pod31
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apps/cms.pod b/doc/apps/cms.pod
index a09588a18d..18fe43caa9 100644
--- a/doc/apps/cms.pod
+++ b/doc/apps/cms.pod
@@ -316,8 +316,13 @@ verification was successful.
=item B<-recip file>
-the recipients certificate when decrypting a message. This certificate
-must match one of the recipients of the message or an error occurs.
+when decrypting a message this specifies the recipients certificate. The
+certificate must match one of the recipients of the message or an error
+occurs.
+
+When encrypting a message this option may be used multiple times to specify
+each recipient. This form B<must> be used if customised parameters are
+required (for example to specify RSA-OAEP).
=item B<-keyid>
@@ -376,6 +381,12 @@ private key must be included in the certificate file specified with
the B<-recip> or B<-signer> file. When signing this option can be used
multiple times to specify successive keys.
+=item B<-keyopt name:opt>
+
+for signing and encryption this option can be used multiple times to
+set customised parameters for the preceding key or certificate. It can
+currently be used to set RSA-PSS for signing or RSA-OAEP for encryption.
+
=item B<-passin arg>
the private key password source. For more information about the format of B<arg>
@@ -573,6 +584,16 @@ Add a signer to an existing message:
openssl cms -resign -in mail.msg -signer newsign.pem -out mail2.msg
+Sign mail using RSA-PSS:
+
+ openssl cms -sign -in message.txt -text -out mail.msg \
+ -signer mycert.pem -keyopt rsa_padding_mode:pss
+
+Create encrypted mail using RSA-OAEP:
+
+ openssl cms -encrypt -in plain.txt -camellia128 -out mail.msg \
+ -recip cert.pem -keyopt rsa_padding_mode:oaep
+
=head1 BUGS
The MIME parser isn't very clever: it seems to handle most messages that I've
@@ -598,5 +619,11 @@ No revocation checking is done on the signer's certificate.
The use of multiple B<-signer> options and the B<-resign> command were first
added in OpenSSL 1.0.0
+The B<keyopt> option was first added in OpenSSL 1.1.0
+
+The use of B<-recip> to specify the recipient when encrypting mail was first
+added to OpenSSL 1.1.0
+
+Support for RSA-OAEP and RSA-PSS was first added to OpenSSL 1.1.0.
=cut