Hi Stephen,
ThanQ for the information. One more doubt of mine is after signing and
encryption do we need to use these SMIME funtions ? Is it must ? .
what is the use of these

SMIME_write_PKCS & SMIME_read_PKCS funtions?
--Regards
shankar

On 4/20/08, Dr. Stephen Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008, shankar ks wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am signing and encrypting a file using PKCS7 Api's . I know that file
> has
> > beec signed and encrypted.. but other person on receiving side how can
> he
> > knows that the file has been signed and encrypted ?
> > Is there any Api is there by which we can find out whether the file is
> > signed or encrypted.. so that he can decrypt and verify the file ..
> > thanks in advance
> >
>
> You can determine the outermost type using macros PKCS7_type_is_signed(),
> PKCS7_type_is_enveloped(). You then normally have to extract the contents
> and
> analyse them in a similar way.
>
> There is a field which gives the type of the content but this is set to
> "data"
> if the content in MIME (which it usually is).
>
> Steve.
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