Re: No keyphrase asked when using CMS compression + signing

by Dr. Stephen Henson :: Rate this Message:

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009, Willem Bos wrote:

> Anybody?
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Willem Bos<whbos@...> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to compress + sign + encrypt files using the following command line :
> >
> > openssl cms -compress -sign -in datafile.txt -nodetach -signer
> > signer.crt -inkey private.key -outform DER |\
> > openssl cms -encrypt -binary -des3 -outform DER -out
> > datafile.txt.encrypted addressee.crt
> >
> > When I leave the `-compress` option out openssl asks me for the
> > private key passphrase. With the `-compress` option added no
> > passphrase is asked.
> >
> > I tried openssl versions 0.9.8.k, 1.0.0beta1 and 1.0.0beta1 all with
> > the same result.
> >
> > What am I missing?
> >

There is no option to combine operations with the cms command at present. You
have to compress and sign separately but you can pipe from one to another.

Steve.
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