// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// This package implements the PEM data encoding, which originated in Privacy
// Enhanced Mail. The most common use of PEM encoding today is in TLS keys and
// certificates. See RFC 1421.
package pem
import (
"bytes";
"encoding/base64";
"strings";
)
// A Block represents a PEM encoded structure.
//
// The encoded form is:
// -----BEGIN Type-----
// Headers
// base64-encoded Bytes
// -----END Type-----
// where Headers is a possibly empty sequence of Key: Value lines.
type Block struct {
Type string; // The type, taken from the preamble (i.e. "RSA PRIVATE KEY").
Headers map[string]string; // Optional headers.
Bytes []byte; // The decoded bytes of the contents. Typically a DER encoded ASN.1 structure.
}
// getLine results the first \r\n or \n delineated line from the given byte
// array. The line does not include the \r\n or \n. The remainder of the byte
// array (also not including the new line bytes) is also returned and this will
// always be smaller than the original argument.
func getLine(data []byte) (line, rest []byte) {
i := bytes.Index(data, []byte{'\n'});
var j int;
if i < 0 {
i = len(data);
j = i;
} else {
j = i + 1;
if i > 0 && data[i-1] == '\r' {
i--
}
}
return data[0:i], data[j:];
}
// removeWhitespace returns a copy of its input with all spaces, tab and
// newline characters removed.
func removeWhitespace(data []byte) []byte {
result := make([]byte, len(data));
n := 0;
for _, b := range data {
if b == ' ' || b == '\t' || b == '\r' || b == '\n' {
continue
}
result[n] = b;
n++;
}
return result[0:n];
}
var pemStart = strings.Bytes("\n-----BEGIN ")
var pemEnd = strings.Bytes("\n-----END ")
var pemEndOfLine = strings.Bytes("-----")
// Decode will find the next PEM formatted block (certificate, private key
// etc) in the input. It returns that block and the remainder of the input. If
// no PEM data is found, p is nil and the whole of the input is returned in
// rest.
func Decode(data []byte) (p *Block, rest []byte) {
// pemStart begins with a newline. However, at the very beginning of
// the byte array, we'll accept the start string without it.
rest = data;
if bytes.HasPrefix(data, pemStart[1:]) {
rest = rest[len(pemStart)-1 : len(data)]
} else if i := bytes.Index(data, pemStart); i >= 0 {
rest = rest[i+len(pemStart) : len(data)]
} else {
return nil, data
}
typeLine, rest := getLine(rest);
if !bytes.HasSuffix(typeLine, pemEndOfLine) {
goto Error
}
typeLine = typeLine[0 : len(typeLine)-len(pemEndOfLine)];
p = &Block{
Headers: make(map[string]string),
Type: string(typeLine),
};
for {
// This loop terminates because getLine's second result is
// always smaller than it's argument.
if len(rest) == 0 {
return nil, data
}
line, next := getLine(rest);
i := bytes.Index(line, []byte{':'});
if i == -1 {
break
}
// TODO(agl): need to cope with values that spread across lines.
key, val := line[0:i], line[i+1:];
key = bytes.TrimSpace(key);
val = bytes.TrimSpace(val);
p.Headers[string(key)] = string(val);
rest = next;
}
i := bytes.Index(rest, pemEnd);
if i < 0 {
goto Error
}
base64Data := removeWhitespace(rest[0:i]);
p.Bytes = make([]byte, base64.StdEncoding.DecodedLen(len(base64Data)));
n, err := base64.StdEncoding.Decode(p.Bytes, base64Data);
if err != nil {
goto Error
}
p.Bytes = p.Bytes[0:n];
_, rest = getLine(rest[i+len(pemEnd):]);
return;
Error:
// If we get here then we have rejected a likely looking, but
// ultimately invalid PEM block. We need to start over from a new
// position. We have consumed the preamble line and will have consumed
// any lines which could be header lines. However, a valid preamble
// line is not a valid header line, therefore we cannot have consumed
// the preamble line for the any subsequent block. Thus, we will always
// find any valid block, no matter what bytes preceed it.
//
// For example, if the input is
//
// -----BEGIN MALFORMED BLOCK-----
// junk that may look like header lines
// or data lines, but no END line
//
// -----BEGIN ACTUAL BLOCK-----
// realdata
// -----END ACTUAL BLOCK-----
//
// we've failed to parse using the first BEGIN line
// and now will try again, using the second BEGIN line.
p, rest = Decode(rest);
if p == nil {
rest = data
}
return;
}
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