Author: Pekka Riikonen <priikone@poseidon.pspt.fi>
- Copyright (C) 2000 Pekka Riikonen
+ Copyright (C) 2000 - 2001 Pekka Riikonen
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#include "silcincludes.h"
/* Encodes MP integer into binary data. Returns allocated data that
- must be free'd by the caller. */
+ must be free'd by the caller. If `len' is provided the destination
+ buffer is allocated that large. If zero then the size is approximated. */
-unsigned char *silc_mp_mp2bin(SilcInt *val, unsigned int *ret_len)
+unsigned char *silc_mp_mp2bin(SilcInt *val, unsigned int len,
+ unsigned int *ret_len)
{
int i;
unsigned int size;
unsigned char *ret;
SilcInt tmp;
- size = (silc_mp_sizeinbase(val, 2) + 7) / 8;
+ size = (len ? len : ((silc_mp_sizeinbase(val, 2) + 7) / 8));
ret = silc_calloc(size, sizeof(*ret));
-
+
silc_mp_init_set(&tmp, val);
for (i = size; i > 0; i--) {
return ret;
}
+/* Samve as above but does not allocate any memory. The encoded data is
+ returned into `dst' and it's length to the `ret_len'. If `dst_len is
+ non-zero then the destination buffer is assumbed to be that large. */
+
+void silc_mp_mp2bin_noalloc(SilcInt *val, unsigned char *dst,
+ unsigned int dst_len)
+{
+ int i;
+ unsigned int size = dst_len;
+ SilcInt tmp;
+
+ silc_mp_init_set(&tmp, val);
+
+ for (i = size; i > 0; i--) {
+ dst[i - 1] = (unsigned char)(silc_mp_get_ui(&tmp) & 0xff);
+ silc_mp_fdiv_q_2exp(&tmp, &tmp, 8);
+ }
+
+ silc_mp_clear(&tmp);
+}
+
/* Decodes binary data into MP integer. The integer sent as argument
must be initialized. */