1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 * base64.c - RFC4648-compliant base64 encoding
5 * Copyright (c) 2020 Hannes Reinecke, SUSE
7 * Based on the base64url routines from fs/crypto/fname.c
8 * (which are using the URL-safe base64 encoding),
9 * modified to use the standard coding table from RFC4648 section 4.
12 #include <linux/kernel.h>
13 #include <linux/types.h>
14 #include <linux/export.h>
15 #include <linux/string.h>
16 #include <linux/base64.h>
18 static const char base64_table
[65] =
19 "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/";
22 * base64_encode() - base64-encode some binary data
23 * @src: the binary data to encode
24 * @srclen: the length of @src in bytes
25 * @dst: (output) the base64-encoded string. Not NUL-terminated.
27 * Encodes data using base64 encoding, i.e. the "Base 64 Encoding" specified
28 * by RFC 4648, including the '='-padding.
30 * Return: the length of the resulting base64-encoded string in bytes.
32 int base64_encode(const u8
*src
, int srclen
, char *dst
)
39 for (i
= 0; i
< srclen
; i
++) {
40 ac
= (ac
<< 8) | src
[i
];
44 *cp
++ = base64_table
[(ac
>> bits
) & 0x3f];
48 *cp
++ = base64_table
[(ac
<< (6 - bits
)) & 0x3f];
57 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(base64_encode
);
60 * base64_decode() - base64-decode a string
61 * @src: the string to decode. Doesn't need to be NUL-terminated.
62 * @srclen: the length of @src in bytes
63 * @dst: (output) the decoded binary data
65 * Decodes a string using base64 encoding, i.e. the "Base 64 Encoding"
66 * specified by RFC 4648, including the '='-padding.
68 * This implementation hasn't been optimized for performance.
70 * Return: the length of the resulting decoded binary data in bytes,
71 * or -1 if the string isn't a valid base64 string.
73 int base64_decode(const char *src
, int srclen
, u8
*dst
)
80 for (i
= 0; i
< srclen
; i
++) {
81 const char *p
= strchr(base64_table
, src
[i
]);
90 if (p
== NULL
|| src
[i
] == 0)
92 ac
= (ac
<< 6) | (p
- base64_table
);
96 *bp
++ = (u8
)(ac
>> bits
);
99 if (ac
& ((1 << bits
) - 1))
103 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(base64_decode
);