Manpages - asn1_get_length_ber.3

asn1_get_length_ber - API function

#include <libtasn1.h>

long asn1_get_length_ber(const unsigned char * */ber/, int ber_len, int * len);*

const unsigned char * ber

BER data to decode.

int ber_len

Length of BER data to decode.

int * len

Output variable containing the length of the BER length field.

Extract a length field from BER data. The difference to asn1_get_length_der() is that this function will return a length even if the value has indefinite encoding.

Return the decoded length value, or negative value when the value was too big.

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