Error reading S/MIME message with openssl

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Hi Monks,

Customer is trying to decrypt the mailfile and write another file with decrypted email data. but getting empty file. below command giving me below error, what could be the possible reasons. this seems to have happened after customer updated there certificate before that same command seemed to be working fine.

#command
my $system_output = system("$OPENSSL smime -decrypt -in $mailfile -rec
+ip $RECIP_CERT -inkey $RECIP_KEY -passin pass:$RECIP_PASSWORD  > ${ma
+ilfile}.txt");
&DebugIncoming("SYSTEM OUTPUT : $system_output");
&DebugIncoming("FILE SIZE :". -s ${mailfile}.txt); ##it returning empt
+y file.
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#Error in detail
Error reading S/MIME message
2992:error:0D0D40CD:asn1 encoding routines:SMIME_read_ASN1:invalid mim
+e type:crypto/asn1/asn_mime.c:460:type: multipart/alternative
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Thank you.

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Re: Error reading S/MIME message with openssl by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 05, 2019 at 09:37 UTC
Does the error occur without using Perl as well? What is the output if you run the following command on the shell (with the variables replaced by the values in your Perl program): `$OPENSSL smime -decrypt -in $mailfile -recip $RECIP_CERT -inkey $RECIP +_KEY -passin pass:$RECIP_PASSWORD` [download] If you get the same output there, the problem is with `$OPENSSL` or with the client input and has nothing to do with Perl.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Error reading S/MIME message with openssl by jcb (Parson) on Oct 05, 2019 at 19:43 UTC
What has changed in the certificate? Does the new certificate specify different algorithms, perhaps implicitly? That is an OpenSSL error, complaining either that it does not like `multipart/alternative` or that the MIME type `crypto/asn1` is not recognized. Perhaps you need a newer version of OpenSSL?	[reply]