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-.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.