PKCS7_TYPE_IS_OTHER(3ossl)

💖 PKCS7_TYPE_IS_OTHER(3ossl) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the OpenSSL manual — like, the whole 3ossl section of it — and it's all about one tiny little function that goes "hmm, is this content type other or not?" 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

PKCS7_type_is_other — determine content type of PKCS#7 envelopedData structure 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <openssl/pkcs7.h>

int PKCS7_type_is_other(PKCS7 *p7);

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so PKCS7_type_is_other() returns whether the content type of a PKCS#7 envelopedData structure is one of the following content types:

• NID_pkcs7_data
• NID_pkcs7_signed
• NID_pkcs7_enveloped
• NID_pkcs7_signedAndEnveloped
• NID_pkcs7_digest
• NID_pkcs7_encrypted

like, those are the "known" ones, bestie. anything outside that little squad is giving other. 🧚

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🔥 RETURN VALUES 🔥

PKCS7_type_is_other() returns either 0 if the content type is matched or 1 otherwise. no cap. ⭐

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• PKCS7_type_is_data(3)
• PKCS7_get_octet_string(3)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright 2002-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.

fr fr read the license before you go touching this, it's the whole vibe check of legal stuff 📜✨

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and that's the whole thing, bestie — slay 💅 this was OpenSSL version 3.5.9, dated 2026-09-29, and it's the PKCS7_TYPE_IS_OTHER(3ossl) page, mwah 💖🫶🌸