NAME

PKCS12_newpass — change the password of a PKCS#12 structure

SYNOPSIS

#include <openssl/pkcs12.h> int
PKCS12_newpass(PKCS12 *p12, const char *oldpass, const char *newpass);

DESCRIPTION

PKCS12_newpass() changes the password of a PKCS#12 structure. p12 is a pointer to a PKCS#12 structure. oldpass is the existing password and newpass is the new password. If the PKCS#12 structure does not have a password, use the empty string “” for oldpass. Passing NULL for oldpass results in a PKCS12_newpass() failure. If the wrong password is used for oldpass, the function will fail with a MAC verification error. In rare cases, the PKCS#12 structure does not contain a MAC: in this case it will usually fail with a decryption padding error.

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, 1 is returned; otherwise 0 is returned and an error code can be retrieved with ERR_get_error(3).

EXAMPLES

This example loads a PKCS#12 file, changes its password, and writes out the result to a new file.

#include <stdio.h> 
#include <stdlib.h> 
#include <openssl/pem.h> 
#include <openssl/err.h> 
#include <openssl/pkcs12.h> 
 
int main(int argc, char **argv) 
{ 
	FILE *fp; 
	PKCS12 *p12; 
	if (argc != 5) { 
		fprintf(stderr, 
		    "Usage: pkread p12file password newpass opfile\n"); 
		return 1; 
	} 
	if ((fp = fopen(argv[1], "rb")) == NULL) { 
		fprintf(stderr, "Error opening file %s\n", argv[1]); 
		return 1; 
	} 
	p12 = d2i_PKCS12_fp(fp, NULL); 
	fclose(fp); 
	if (p12 == NULL) { 
		fprintf(stderr, "Error reading PKCS#12 file\n"); 
		ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr); 
		return 1; 
	} 
	if (PKCS12_newpass(p12, argv[2], argv[3]) == 0) { 
		fprintf(stderr, "Error changing password\n"); 
		ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr); 
		PKCS12_free(p12); 
		return 1; 
	} 
	if ((fp = fopen(argv[4], "wb")) == NULL) { 
		fprintf(stderr, "Error opening file %s\n", argv[4]); 
		PKCS12_free(p12); 
		return 1; 
	} 
	i2d_PKCS12_fp(fp, p12); 
	PKCS12_free(p12); 
	fclose(fp); 
	return 0; 
}

SEE ALSO

PKCS12_create(3), PKCS12_new(3)

HISTORY

PKCS12_newpass() first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.5 and has been available since OpenBSD 2.7.

BUGS

The password format is a NUL terminated ASCII string which is converted to Unicode form internally. As a result, some passwords cannot be supplied to this function.