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      1 /* LibTomCrypt, modular cryptographic library -- Tom St Denis
      2  *
      3  * LibTomCrypt is a library that provides various cryptographic
      4  * algorithms in a highly modular and flexible manner.
      5  *
      6  * The library is free for all purposes without any express
      7  * guarantee it works.
      8  *
      9  * Tom St Denis, tomstdenis (at) gmail.com, http://libtomcrypt.com
     10  */
     11 #include "tomcrypt.h"
     12 
     13 /**
     14   @file der_length_bit_string.c
     15   ASN.1 DER, get length of BIT STRING, Tom St Denis
     16 */
     17 
     18 #ifdef LTC_DER
     19 /**
     20   Gets length of DER encoding of BIT STRING
     21   @param nbits  The number of bits in the string to encode
     22   @param outlen [out] The length of the DER encoding for the given string
     23   @return CRYPT_OK if successful
     24 */
     25 int der_length_bit_string(unsigned long nbits, unsigned long *outlen)
     26 {
     27    unsigned long nbytes;
     28    LTC_ARGCHK(outlen != NULL);
     29 
     30    /* get the number of the bytes */
     31    nbytes = (nbits >> 3) + ((nbits & 7) ? 1 : 0) + 1;
     32 
     33    if (nbytes < 128) {
     34       /* 03 LL PP DD DD DD ... */
     35       *outlen = 2 + nbytes;
     36    } else if (nbytes < 256) {
     37       /* 03 81 LL PP DD DD DD ... */
     38       *outlen = 3 + nbytes;
     39    } else if (nbytes < 65536) {
     40       /* 03 82 LL LL PP DD DD DD ... */
     41       *outlen = 4 + nbytes;
     42    } else {
     43       return CRYPT_INVALID_ARG;
     44    }
     45 
     46    return CRYPT_OK;
     47 }
     48 
     49 #endif
     50 
     51 
     52 /* $Source: /cvs/libtom/libtomcrypt/src/pk/asn1/der/bit/der_length_bit_string.c,v $ */
     53 /* $Revision: 1.2 $ */
     54 /* $Date: 2006/03/31 14:15:35 $ */
     55