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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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Unicode C++
#include <CkJweW.h>
#include <CkJsonObjectW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkJweW jwe;

    //  Protected header: AES key-wrap with AES-256-GCM content encryption.
    CkJsonObjectW header;
    header.UpdateString(L"alg",L"A256KW");
    header.UpdateString(L"enc",L"A256GCM");
    success = jwe.SetProtectedHeader(header);
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",jwe.lastErrorText());
        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 wchar_t *base64Key = L"YWJjZGVmZ2hpamtsbW5vcHFyc3R1dnd4eXowMTIzNDU=";
    success = jwe.SetWrappingKey(0,base64Key,L"base64");
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",jwe.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    const wchar_t *jweCompact = jwe.encrypt(L"This is the secret content.",L"utf-8");
    if (jwe.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",jwe.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"%s\n",jweCompact);
    }