| =pod |
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| =head1 NAME |
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| EVP_ENCODE_CTX_new, EVP_ENCODE_CTX_free, EVP_ENCODE_CTX_copy, |
| EVP_ENCODE_CTX_num, EVP_EncodeInit, EVP_EncodeUpdate, EVP_EncodeFinal, |
| EVP_EncodeBlock, EVP_DecodeInit, EVP_DecodeUpdate, EVP_DecodeFinal, |
| EVP_DecodeBlock - EVP base 64 encode/decode routines |
| |
| =head1 SYNOPSIS |
| |
| #include <openssl/evp.h> |
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| EVP_ENCODE_CTX *EVP_ENCODE_CTX_new(void); |
| void EVP_ENCODE_CTX_free(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx); |
| int EVP_ENCODE_CTX_copy(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *dctx, EVP_ENCODE_CTX *sctx); |
| int EVP_ENCODE_CTX_num(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx); |
| void EVP_EncodeInit(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx); |
| int EVP_EncodeUpdate(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx, unsigned char *out, int *outl, |
| const unsigned char *in, int inl); |
| void EVP_EncodeFinal(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx, unsigned char *out, int *outl); |
| int EVP_EncodeBlock(unsigned char *t, const unsigned char *f, int n); |
| |
| void EVP_DecodeInit(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx); |
| int EVP_DecodeUpdate(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx, unsigned char *out, int *outl, |
| const unsigned char *in, int inl); |
| int EVP_DecodeFinal(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx, unsigned char *out, int *outl); |
| int EVP_DecodeBlock(unsigned char *t, const unsigned char *f, int n); |
| |
| =head1 DESCRIPTION |
| |
| The EVP encode routines provide a high-level interface to base 64 encoding and |
| decoding. Base 64 encoding converts binary data into a printable form that uses |
| the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, "+" and "/" to represent the data. For every 3 |
| bytes of binary data provided 4 bytes of base 64 encoded data will be produced |
| plus some occasional newlines (see below). If the input data length is not a |
| multiple of 3 then the output data will be padded at the end using the "=" |
| character. |
| |
| EVP_ENCODE_CTX_new() allocates, initializes and returns a context to be used for |
| the encode/decode functions. |
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| EVP_ENCODE_CTX_free() cleans up an encode/decode context B<ctx> and frees up the |
| space allocated to it. |
| |
| Encoding of binary data is performed in blocks of 48 input bytes (or less for |
| the final block). For each 48 byte input block encoded 64 bytes of base 64 data |
| is output plus an additional newline character (i.e. 65 bytes in total). The |
| final block (which may be less than 48 bytes) will output 4 bytes for every 3 |
| bytes of input. If the data length is not divisible by 3 then a full 4 bytes is |
| still output for the final 1 or 2 bytes of input. Similarly a newline character |
| will also be output. |
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| EVP_EncodeInit() initialises B<ctx> for the start of a new encoding operation. |
| |
| EVP_EncodeUpdate() encode B<inl> bytes of data found in the buffer pointed to by |
| B<in>. The output is stored in the buffer B<out> and the number of bytes output |
| is stored in B<*outl>. It is the caller's responsibility to ensure that the |
| buffer at B<out> is sufficiently large to accommodate the output data. Only full |
| blocks of data (48 bytes) will be immediately processed and output by this |
| function. Any remainder is held in the B<ctx> object and will be processed by a |
| subsequent call to EVP_EncodeUpdate() or EVP_EncodeFinal(). To calculate the |
| required size of the output buffer add together the value of B<inl> with the |
| amount of unprocessed data held in B<ctx> and divide the result by 48 (ignore |
| any remainder). This gives the number of blocks of data that will be processed. |
| Ensure the output buffer contains 65 bytes of storage for each block, plus an |
| additional byte for a NUL terminator. EVP_EncodeUpdate() may be called |
| repeatedly to process large amounts of input data. In the event of an error |
| EVP_EncodeUpdate() will set B<*outl> to 0 and return 0. On success 1 will be |
| returned. |
| |
| EVP_EncodeFinal() must be called at the end of an encoding operation. It will |
| process any partial block of data remaining in the B<ctx> object. The output |
| data will be stored in B<out> and the length of the data written will be stored |
| in B<*outl>. It is the caller's responsibility to ensure that B<out> is |
| sufficiently large to accommodate the output data which will never be more than |
| 65 bytes plus an additional NUL terminator (i.e. 66 bytes in total). |
| |
| EVP_ENCODE_CTX_copy() can be used to copy a context B<sctx> to a context |
| B<dctx>. B<dctx> must be initialized before calling this function. |
| |
| EVP_ENCODE_CTX_num() will return the number of as yet unprocessed bytes still to |
| be encoded or decoded that are pending in the B<ctx> object. |
| |
| EVP_EncodeBlock() encodes a full block of input data in B<f> and of length |
| B<n> and stores it in B<t>. For every 3 bytes of input provided 4 bytes of |
| output data will be produced. If B<n> is not divisible by 3 then the block is |
| encoded as a final block of data and the output is padded such that it is always |
| divisible by 4. Additionally a NUL terminator character will be added. For |
| example if 16 bytes of input data is provided then 24 bytes of encoded data is |
| created plus 1 byte for a NUL terminator (i.e. 25 bytes in total). The length of |
| the data generated I<without> the NUL terminator is returned from the function. |
| |
| EVP_DecodeInit() initialises B<ctx> for the start of a new decoding operation. |
| |
| EVP_DecodeUpdate() decodes B<inl> characters of data found in the buffer pointed |
| to by B<in>. The output is stored in the buffer B<out> and the number of bytes |
| output is stored in B<*outl>. It is the caller's responsibility to ensure that |
| the buffer at B<out> is sufficiently large to accommodate the output data. This |
| function will attempt to decode as much data as possible in 4 byte chunks. Any |
| whitespace, newline or carriage return characters are ignored. Any partial chunk |
| of unprocessed data (1, 2 or 3 bytes) that remains at the end will be held in |
| the B<ctx> object and processed by a subsequent call to EVP_DecodeUpdate(). If |
| any illegal base 64 characters are encountered or if the base 64 padding |
| character "=" is encountered in the middle of the data then the function returns |
| -1 to indicate an error. A return value of 0 or 1 indicates successful |
| processing of the data. A return value of 0 additionally indicates that the last |
| input data characters processed included the base 64 padding character "=" and |
| therefore no more non-padding character data is expected to be processed. For |
| every 4 valid base 64 bytes processed (ignoring whitespace, carriage returns and |
| line feeds), 3 bytes of binary output data will be produced (or less at the end |
| of the data where the padding character "=" has been used). |
| |
| EVP_DecodeFinal() must be called at the end of a decoding operation. If there |
| is any unprocessed data still in B<ctx> then the input data must not have been |
| a multiple of 4 and therefore an error has occurred. The function will return -1 |
| in this case. Otherwise the function returns 1 on success. |
| |
| EVP_DecodeBlock() will decode the block of B<n> characters of base 64 data |
| contained in B<f> and store the result in B<t>. Any leading whitespace will be |
| trimmed as will any trailing whitespace, newlines, carriage returns or EOF |
| characters. After such trimming the length of the data in B<f> must be divisible |
| by 4. For every 4 input bytes exactly 3 output bytes will be produced. The |
| output will be padded with 0 bits if necessary to ensure that the output is |
| always 3 bytes for every 4 input bytes. This function will return the length of |
| the data decoded or -1 on error. |
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| =head1 RETURN VALUES |
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| EVP_ENCODE_CTX_new() returns a pointer to the newly allocated EVP_ENCODE_CTX |
| object or NULL on error. |
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| EVP_ENCODE_CTX_num() returns the number of bytes pending encoding or decoding in |
| B<ctx>. |
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| EVP_EncodeUpdate() returns 0 on error or 1 on success. |
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| EVP_EncodeBlock() returns the number of bytes encoded excluding the NUL |
| terminator. |
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| EVP_DecodeUpdate() returns -1 on error and 0 or 1 on success. If 0 is returned |
| then no more non-padding base 64 characters are expected. |
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| EVP_DecodeFinal() returns -1 on error or 1 on success. |
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| EVP_DecodeBlock() returns the length of the data decoded or -1 on error. |
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| =head1 SEE ALSO |
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| L<evp(7)> |
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| =head1 COPYRIGHT |
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| Copyright 2016-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. |
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| 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 |
| L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>. |
| |
| =cut |