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author | Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> | 2022-02-12 16:16:47 +0100 |
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committer | Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> | 2022-02-12 16:16:56 +0100 |
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Add man pages, readme, and nonnull attributes and fix documentation typos
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diff --git a/libar2_encode_base64.3 b/libar2_encode_base64.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bb5b927 --- /dev/null +++ b/libar2_encode_base64.3 @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +.TH LIBAR2_ENCODE_BASE64 7 LIBAR2 +.SH NAME +libar2_encode_base64 - Encode data to base64 + +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +#include <libar2.h> + +size_t libar2_encode_base64(char *\fIbuf\fP, const void *\fIdata\fP, size_t \fIlen\fP); +.fi +.PP +Link with +.IR -lar2 . + +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR libar2_encode_base64 () +function encodes some binary data, provided +via the +.I data +parameter, into base64, and stores the base64 +encoding in +.I buf +(unless +.I buf +is +.IR NULL ). +The number of bytes from +.I data +to encode shall be specified in the +.I len +parameter. +.PP +The encoding of +.I data +will +.B not +be padded to a length divisble by 4. +.PP +.I data +may only be +.I NULL +if +.I len +is 0. + +.SH RETURN VALUES +The +.BR libar2_encode_base64 () +function returns the number of bytes required +to encode the data to base64, plus one extra +byte for the NUL byte that is added to the to +terminate the string; that is, the number of +bytes written to +.I buf +or the required allocation size of +.IR buf . +If +.I buf +is +.RI non- NULL , +a string will be stored in it according to the +specifications in the +.B DESCRIPTION +section. + +.SH ERRORS +The +.BR libar2_encode_base64 () +function cannot fail. + +.SH EXAMPLES +The following example demonstrates how to +encode data to base64 and store it in a +dynamically allocated string. +.PP +.nf +#include <libar2.h> +#include <stdlib.h> + +static char * +encode_base64(const void *data, size_t len) +{ + size_t n = libar2_encode_base64(NULL, data, len); + char *buf = malloc(n); + if (!buf) + return NULL; + if (libar2_encode_base64(buf, data, len) > n) + abort(); + return buf; +} +.fi + +.SH NOTES +The encoding specified for +.BR crypt (3) +is B64, which is similar to, but with significant +differences from, base64, which is the encoding +that is standardised for Argon2. + +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR libar2 (7), +.BR libar2_decode_base64 (3) |