5 Author: Pekka Riikonen <priikone@silcnet.org>
7 Copyright (C) 2003 - 2008 Pekka Riikonen
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20 /****h* silcasn1/BER Interface
24 * The Basic Encoding Rules (BER) is the data encoding format for the
25 * ASN.1. This interface provides routines for encoding and decoding
26 * arbitraty BER data blocks. Naturally, this interface can be used
27 * to encode and decode DER blocks as well. These routines does not
28 * allocate any memory and have been optimized for general ASN.1 usage.
30 * This is a low level interface and is not usually needed or used
33 * References: ITU-T X.690
34 * http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/languages/X690_0702.pdf
41 /****d* silcasn1/SilcBerClass
45 * typedef enum { ... } SilcBerClass;
49 * Defines the BER classes.
54 SILC_BER_CLASS_UNIVERSAL = 0x00, /* Universal */
55 SILC_BER_CLASS_APPLICATION = 0x01, /* Application */
56 SILC_BER_CLASS_CONTEXT = 0x02, /* Context-specific */
57 SILC_BER_CLASS_PRIVATE = 0x03, /* Private */
61 /****d* silcasn1/SilcBerEncoding
65 * typedef enum { ... } SilcBerEncoding;
69 * Defines the BER encoding type.
74 SILC_BER_ENC_PRIMITIVE = 0x00,
75 SILC_BER_ENC_CONSTRUCTED = 0x01,
79 /****f* silcasn1/silc_ber_encode
84 * silc_ber_encode(SilcBuffer ber, SilcBerClass ber_class,
85 * SilcBerEncoding encoding, SilcUInt32 tag,
86 * const unsigned char *data, SilcUInt32 data_len,
87 * SilcBool indefinite);
91 * Encodes a BER data block into the `ber', which must already have
92 * sufficient space allocated. Caller can use silc_ber_encoded_len
93 * function to determine how much to allocate space before calling this
94 * function. If the `indefinite' is TRUE then the BER block will not
95 * include the length of the data in the BER block.
98 SilcBool silc_ber_encode(SilcBuffer ber, SilcBerClass ber_class,
99 SilcBerEncoding encoding, SilcUInt32 tag,
100 const unsigned char *data, SilcUInt32 data_len,
101 SilcBool indefinite);
103 /****f* silcasn1/silc_ber_decode
108 * silc_ber_decode(SilcBuffer ber, SilcBerClass *ber_class,
109 * SilcBerEncoding *encoding, SilcUInt32 *tag,
110 * const unsigned char **data, SilcUInt32 *data_len,
111 * SilcBool *indefinite, SilcUInt32 *identifier_len);
115 * Decodesa a BER data from the buffer `ber'. Returns the class,
116 * encoding and the tag number for the BER data into `ber_class',
117 * `encoding' and `tag'. A pointer to the start of the data area is
118 * returned into `data'. If the length of the data is available from
119 * the BER data the length is returned into `data_len'. If the
120 * `indefinite' is TRUE then the length found in `data_len' was found
121 * by finding end-of-contents octets from the BER data. The
122 * `identifier_len' is the length of the BER header, and the length
123 * of the entire BER object is `identifier_len' + `data_len'.
126 SilcBool silc_ber_decode(SilcBuffer ber, SilcBerClass *ber_class,
127 SilcBerEncoding *encoding, SilcUInt32 *tag,
128 const unsigned char **data, SilcUInt32 *data_len,
129 SilcBool *indefinite, SilcUInt32 *identifier_len);
131 /****f* silcasn1/silc_ber_encoded_len
135 * SilcUInt32 silc_ber_encoded_len(SilcUInt32 tag, SilcUInt32 data_len,
136 * SilcBool indefinite);
140 * Calculates the length of the encoded BER data object. This utility
141 * function can be used to calculate how much to allocate space before
142 * encoding with silc_ber_encode.
145 SilcUInt32 silc_ber_encoded_len(SilcUInt32 tag, SilcUInt32 data_len,
146 SilcBool indefinite);
148 #endif /* SILCBER_H */