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diff --git a/src/libfreeswan/ttodata.3 b/src/libfreeswan/ttodata.3 deleted file mode 100644 index 8f4b1ec93..000000000 --- a/src/libfreeswan/ttodata.3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,280 +0,0 @@ -.TH IPSEC_TTODATA 3 "16 August 2003" -.SH NAME -ipsec ttodata, datatot \- convert binary data bytes from and to text formats -.SH SYNOPSIS -.B "#include <freeswan.h>" -.sp -.B "const char *ttodata(const char *src, size_t srclen," -.ti +1c -.B "int base, char *dst, size_t dstlen, size_t *lenp);" -.br -.B "const char *ttodatav(const char *src, size_t srclen," -.ti +1c -.B "int base, char *dst, size_t dstlen, size_t *lenp," -.ti +1c -.B "char *errp, size_t errlen, int flags);" -.br -.B "size_t datatot(const char *src, size_t srclen," -.ti +1c -.B "int format, char *dst, size_t dstlen);" -.SH DESCRIPTION -.IR Ttodata , -.IR ttodatav , -and -.I datatot -convert arbitrary binary data (e.g. encryption or authentication keys) -from and to more-or-less human-readable text formats. -.PP -Currently supported formats are hexadecimal, base64, and characters. -.PP -A hexadecimal text value begins with a -.B 0x -(or -.BR 0X ) -prefix and continues with two-digit groups -of hexadecimal digits (0-9, and a-f or A-F), -each group encoding the value of one binary byte, high-order digit first. -A single -.B _ -(underscore) -between consecutive groups is ignored, permitting punctuation to improve -readability; doing this every eight digits seems about right. -.PP -A base64 text value begins with a -.B 0s -(or -.BR 0S ) -prefix -and continues with four-digit groups of base64 digits (A-Z, a-z, 0-9, +, and /), -each group encoding the value of three binary bytes as described in -section 6.8 of RFC 2045. -If -.B flags -has the -.B TTODATAV_IGNORESPACE -bit on, blanks are ignore (after the prefix). -Note that the last one or two digits of a base64 group can be -.B = -to indicate that fewer than three binary bytes are encoded. -.PP -A character text value begins with a -.B 0t -(or -.BR 0T ) -prefix -and continues with text characters, each being the value of one binary byte. -.PP -All these functions basically copy data from -.I src -(whose size is specified by -.IR srclen ) -to -.I dst -(whose size is specified by -.IR dstlen ), -doing the conversion en route. -If the result will not fit in -.IR dst , -it is truncated; -under no circumstances are more than -.I dstlen -bytes of result written to -.IR dst . -.I Dstlen -can be zero, in which case -.I dst -need not be valid and no result bytes are written at all. -.PP -The -.I base -parameter of -.I ttodata -and -.I ttodatav -specifies what format the input is in; -normally it should be -.B 0 -to signify that this gets figured out from the prefix. -Values of -.BR 16 , -.BR 64 , -and -.BR 256 -respectively signify hexadecimal, base64, and character-text formats -without prefixes. -.PP -The -.I format -parameter of -.IR datatot , -a single character used as a type code, -specifies which text format is wanted. -The value -.B 0 -(not ASCII -.BR '0' , -but a zero value) specifies a reasonable default. -Other currently-supported values are: -.RS 2 -.TP 4 -.B 'x' -continuous lower-case hexadecimal with a -.B 0x -prefix -.TP -.B 'h' -lower-case hexadecimal with a -.B 0x -prefix and a -.B _ -every eight digits -.TP -.B ':' -lower-case hexadecimal with no prefix and a -.B : -(colon) every two digits -.TP -.B 16 -lower-case hexadecimal with no prefix or -.B _ -.TP -.B 's' -continuous base64 with a -.B 0s -prefix -.TP -.B 64 -continuous base64 with no prefix -.RE -.PP -The default format is currently -.BR 'h' . -.PP -.I Ttodata -returns NULL for success and -a pointer to a string-literal error message for failure; -see DIAGNOSTICS. -On success, -if and only if -.I lenp -is non-NULL, -.B *lenp -is set to the number of bytes required to contain the full untruncated result. -It is the caller's responsibility to check this against -.I dstlen -to determine whether he has obtained a complete result. -The -.B *lenp -value is correct even if -.I dstlen -is zero, which offers a way to determine how much space would be needed -before having to allocate any. -.PP -.I Ttodatav -is just like -.I ttodata -except that in certain cases, -if -.I errp -is non-NULL, -the buffer pointed to by -.I errp -(whose length is given by -.IR errlen ) -is used to hold a more detailed error message. -The return value is NULL for success, -and is either -.I errp -or a pointer to a string literal for failure. -If the size of the error-message buffer is -inadequate for the desired message, -.I ttodatav -will fall back on returning a pointer to a literal string instead. -The -.I freeswan.h -header file defines a constant -.B TTODATAV_BUF -which is the size of a buffer large enough for worst-case results. -.PP -The normal return value of -.IR datatot -is the number of bytes required -to contain the full untruncated result. -It is the caller's responsibility to check this against -.I dstlen -to determine whether he has obtained a complete result. -The return value is correct even if -.I dstlen -is zero, which offers a way to determine how much space would be needed -before having to allocate any. -A return value of -.B 0 -signals a fatal error of some kind -(see DIAGNOSTICS). -.PP -A zero value for -.I srclen -in -.I ttodata -(but not -.IR datatot !) -is synonymous with -.BR strlen(src) . -A non-zero -.I srclen -in -.I ttodata -must not include the terminating NUL. -.PP -Unless -.I dstlen -is zero, -the result supplied by -.I datatot -is always NUL-terminated, -and its needed-size return value includes space for the terminating NUL. -.PP -Several obsolete variants of these functions -.RI ( atodata , -.IR datatoa , -.IR atobytes , -and -.IR bytestoa ) -are temporarily also supported. -.SH SEE ALSO -sprintf(3), ipsec_atoaddr(3) -.SH DIAGNOSTICS -Fatal errors in -.I ttodata -and -.I ttodatav -are: -unknown characters in the input; -unknown or missing prefix; -unknown base; -incomplete digit group; -non-zero padding in a base64 less-than-three-bytes digit group; -zero-length input. -.PP -Fatal errors in -.I datatot -are: -unknown format code; -zero-length input. -.SH HISTORY -Written for the FreeS/WAN project by Henry Spencer. -.SH BUGS -.I Datatot -should have a format code to produce character-text output. -.PP -The -.B 0s -and -.B 0t -prefixes are the author's inventions and are not a standard -of any kind. -They have been chosen to avoid collisions with existing practice -(some C implementations use -.B 0b -for binary) -and possible confusion with unprefixed hexadecimal. |