Thanks Nelson. And sorry about the subject of the mail. I wanted to ask about that also. What are the equivalent APIs in NSS which probably can replace the BIO I/O abstraction of OpenSSL ?
Cheers Ruchi On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Nelson B Bolyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Ruchi Lohani wrote: > > Can anyone point me to the documentation present for pkcs7. > > I'm not sure if you're asking about the standards or the NSS > implementations of the standards (there are multiple of each). > > PKCS#7 v 1.5, also known as Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), > is RFC 2315. It was the first in a series of RFCs publishing > various versions of CMS. It was used in S/MIME V 2, RFC 2311. > > It was succeeded by > > CMS 1 - RFC 2630 used in S/MIME v 3.0, RFC 2633 > CMS 2 - RFC 3369 > CMS 3 - RFC 3852, used in S/MIME v 3.1, RFC 3851. > > There was also an extension to CMS 1 known as ESS, RFC 2634. > > NSS contains two separate libraries that implement versions of CMS. > > The functions and typedefs whose names begin with SEC_PKCS7 embody an > implementation of PKCS#7 v1.5. See a list in > http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/search?string=SEC_PKCS7&find=nss.*h > > The functions whose names begin with NSS_CMS and the typedefs whose names > begin with NSSCMS embody an implementation of CMS 1 > http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/search?string=NSS_*CMS&find=nss.*h®exp=1 > > Today, Thunderbird (which implements S/MIME 3.0) uses the NSS_CMS > functions. > NSS internally still uses the older SEC_PKCS7 functions for decoding > signedData messages, which are used to download certificate chains. > http://developer.mozilla.org/En/NSS_Certificate_Download_Specification > > > Are there any specific examples present on its usage? > > For the SEC_PKCS7 API, there are examples in these files: > > > http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/cmd/p7content/p7content.c > http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/cmd/p7env/p7env.c > http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/cmd/p7sign/p7sign.c > http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/cmd/p7verify/p7verify.c > http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/cmd/signver/pk7print.c > http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/cmd/signver/signver.c > > For the NSS_CMS API, see > > http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/cmd/smimetools/cmsutil.c > > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > dev-tech-crypto mailing list > dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto >
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