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Encrypt a JWE with a Symmetric Wrapping Key

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Demonstrates Jwe.SetWrappingKey, which sets the symmetric key-wrapping key for a recipient. The key bytes are supplied in a named encoding such as hex or base64.

Background. AES key wrapping protects the content-encryption key with a shared symmetric key. Both parties must possess the same wrapping key.

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#include <CkJwe.h>
#include <CkJsonObject.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkJwe jwe;

    //  Protected header: AES key-wrap with AES-256-GCM content encryption.
    CkJsonObject header;
    header.UpdateString("alg","A256KW");
    header.UpdateString("enc","A256GCM");
    success = jwe.SetProtectedHeader(header);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << jwe.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    //  Set the symmetric key-wrapping key for recipient 0.  The key bytes are provided in the named
    //  encoding (here base64).  In production, obtain the key from a secure source rather than hard-coding
    //  it.
    const char *base64Key = "YWJjZGVmZ2hpamtsbW5vcHFyc3R1dnd4eXowMTIzNDU=";
    success = jwe.SetWrappingKey(0,base64Key,"base64");
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << jwe.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    const char *jweCompact = jwe.encrypt("This is the secret content.","utf-8");
    if (jwe.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        std::cout << jwe.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    std::cout << jweCompact << "\r\n";
    }