// 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" "io" "os" ) // 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 = []byte("\n-----BEGIN ") var pemEnd = []byte("\n-----END ") var pemEndOfLine = []byte("-----") // 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 } const pemLineLength = 64 type lineBreaker struct { line [pemLineLength]byte used int out io.Writer } func (l *lineBreaker) Write(b []byte) (n int, err os.Error) { if l.used+len(b) < pemLineLength { copy(l.line[l.used:], b) l.used += len(b) return len(b), nil } n, err = l.out.Write(l.line[0:l.used]) if err != nil { return } excess := pemLineLength - l.used l.used = 0 n, err = l.out.Write(b[0:excess]) if err != nil { return } n, err = l.out.Write([]byte{'\n'}) if err != nil { return } return l.Write(b[excess:]) } func (l *lineBreaker) Close() (err os.Error) { if l.used > 0 { _, err = l.out.Write(l.line[0:l.used]) if err != nil { return } _, err = l.out.Write([]byte{'\n'}) } return } func Encode(out io.Writer, b *Block) (err os.Error) { _, err = out.Write(pemStart[1:]) if err != nil { return } _, err = out.Write([]byte(b.Type + "-----\n")) if err != nil { return } if len(b.Headers) > 0 { for k, v := range b.Headers { _, err = out.Write([]byte(k + ": " + v + "\n")) if err != nil { return } } _, err = out.Write([]byte{'\n'}) if err != nil { return } } var breaker lineBreaker breaker.out = out b64 := base64.NewEncoder(base64.StdEncoding, &breaker) _, err = b64.Write(b.Bytes) if err != nil { return } b64.Close() breaker.Close() _, err = out.Write(pemEnd[1:]) if err != nil { return } _, err = out.Write([]byte(b.Type + "-----\n")) return } func EncodeToMemory(b *Block) []byte { buf := bytes.NewBuffer(nil) Encode(buf, b) return buf.Bytes() }