5 BIO_new_CMS - CMS streaming filter BIO
9 #include <openssl/cms.h>
11 BIO *BIO_new_CMS(BIO *out, CMS_ContentInfo *cms);
15 BIO_new_CMS() returns a streaming filter BIO chain based on B<cms>. The output
16 of the filter is written to B<out>. Any data written to the chain is
17 automatically translated to a BER format CMS structure of the appropriate type.
21 The chain returned by this function behaves like a standard filter BIO. It
22 supports non blocking I/O. Content is processed and streamed on the fly and not
23 all held in memory at once: so it is possible to encode very large structures.
24 After all content has been written through the chain BIO_flush() must be called
25 to finalise the structure.
27 The B<CMS_STREAM> flag must be included in the corresponding B<flags>
28 parameter of the B<cms> creation function.
30 If an application wishes to write additional data to B<out> BIOs should be
31 removed from the chain using BIO_pop() and freed with BIO_free() until B<out>
32 is reached. If no additional data needs to be written BIO_free_all() can be
33 called to free up the whole chain.
35 Any content written through the filter is used verbatim: no canonical
36 translation is performed.
38 It is possible to chain multiple BIOs to, for example, create a triple wrapped
39 signed, enveloped, signed structure. In this case it is the applications
40 responsibility to set the inner content type of any outer CMS_ContentInfo
43 Large numbers of small writes through the chain should be avoided as this will
44 produce an output consisting of lots of OCTET STRING structures. Prepending
45 a BIO_f_buffer() buffering BIO will prevent this.
49 There is currently no corresponding inverse BIO: i.e. one which can decode
50 a CMS structure on the fly.
54 BIO_new_CMS() returns a BIO chain when successful or NULL if an error
55 occurred. The error can be obtained from ERR_get_error(3).
59 L<ERR_get_error(3)|ERR_get_error(3)>, L<CMS_sign(3)|CMS_sign(3)>,
60 L<CMS_encrypt(3)|CMS_encrypt(3)>
64 BIO_new_CMS() was added to OpenSSL 1.0.0