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Decrypt a JWE into BinData

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Demonstrates Jwe.DecryptBd, which decrypts a recipient of a loaded JWE and writes the plaintext bytes into a BinData.

Background. This is used when the decrypted content is binary. The recipient key must be provided before decrypting.

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<?php

$success = 0;

$jwe = new COM("Chilkat.Jwe");

//  Load the JWE compact serialization to be decrypted.
$jweCompact = 'eyJhbGciOiJBMjU2S1ciLCJlbmMiOiJBMjU2R0NNIn0.<...>.<iv>.<ciphertext>.<tag>';
$success = $jwe->LoadJwe($jweCompact);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $jwe->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  The 256-bit key-wrapping key (base64) for recipient index 0.  In production, obtain the key
//  from a secure source rather than hard-coding it.
$base64Key = 'YWJjZGVmZ2hpamtsbW5vcHFyc3R1dnd4eXowMTIzNDU=';
$success = $jwe->SetWrappingKey(0,$base64Key,'base64');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $jwe->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Decrypt recipient index 0, writing the plaintext bytes into a BinData.
$bd = new COM("Chilkat.BinData");
$success = $jwe->DecryptBd(0,$bd);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $jwe->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Decrypted ' . $bd->NumBytes . ' bytes.' . "\n";

?>