Chilkat2-Python

Encrypt a file to a PKCS7 encrypted message using multiple certificates from different users

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Demonstrates how to encrypt a file to a PKCS7 encrypted message using multiple certificates from different users. Any one of the users can decrypt using his/her own certificate + private key.

Note: When doing public key encryption, it is the public key that is used to encrypt. The private key is required for decryption.

Chilkat2-Python

import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

crypt = chilkat2.Crypt2()

# Tell the crypt object to use 3 certificates.
# Do this by calling AddEncryptCert for each certificate.

# Load a digital certificate. 
# We don't need the private key for encryption.
# Only the public key is needed (which is included in a certificate).
cert1 = chilkat2.Cert()
success = cert1.LoadFromFile("qa_data/user1/cert_user1.pem")
# Assume success for the example, but make sure your application checks for success/failure...
crypt.AddEncryptCert(cert1)

cert2 = chilkat2.Cert()
success = cert2.LoadFromFile("qa_data/user2/cert_user2.pem")
crypt.AddEncryptCert(cert2)

cert3 = chilkat2.Cert()
success = cert3.LoadFromFile("qa_data/user3/cert_user3.pem")
crypt.AddEncryptCert(cert3)

# Indicate that we want PKI encryption (i.e. public-key infrastructure)
# to produce a CMS message (Cryptographic Message Syntax/PKCS7),
# that is be created with RSAES-OAEP padding, SHA256, and AES-128 for the
# bulk encryption.
crypt.CryptAlgorithm = "pki"
crypt.Pkcs7CryptAlg = "aes"
crypt.KeyLength = 128
crypt.OaepHash = "sha256"
crypt.OaepPadding = True

# Load the file to be encrypted...
fileData = chilkat2.BinData()
success = fileData.LoadFile("qa_data/jpg/penguins.jpg")
# Your app should check for success/failure..

# Encrypt the data.  The contents of the fileData object are replaced with the PKCS7 encrypted message.
success = crypt.EncryptBd(fileData)
if (success != True):
    print(crypt.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# Save the PKCS7 encrypted message to a file..
success = fileData.WriteFile("qa_output/pkcs7_encrypted.p7")

# Now indicate that the PKCS7 output is to be returned in the base64 encoding.
crypt.EncodingMode = "base64"

print("OK.")