Base64 encoding and decoding with OpenSSL

Question

I\'ve been trying to figure out the openssl documentation for base64 decoding and encoding. I found some code snippets below

Answer 1

Here is an example of OpenSSL base64 encode/decode I wrote:

Notice, I have some macros/classes in the code that I wrote, but none of them is important for the example. It is simply some C++ wrappers I wrote:

buffer base64::encode( const buffer& data )
{
    // bio is simply a class that wraps BIO* and it free the BIO in the destructor.

    bio b64(BIO_f_base64()); // create BIO to perform base64
    BIO_set_flags(b64,BIO_FLAGS_BASE64_NO_NL);

    bio mem(BIO_s_mem()); // create BIO that holds the result

    // chain base64 with mem, so writing to b64 will encode base64 and write to mem.
    BIO_push(b64, mem);

    // write data
    bool done = false;
    int res = 0;
    while(!done)
    {
        res = BIO_write(b64, data.data, (int)data.size);

        if(res <= 0) // if failed
        {
            if(BIO_should_retry(b64)){
                continue;
            }
            else // encoding failed
            {
                /* Handle Error!!! */
            }
        }
        else // success!
            done = true;
    }

    BIO_flush(b64);

    // get a pointer to mem's data
    char* dt;
    long len = BIO_get_mem_data(mem, &dt);

    // assign data to output
    std::string s(dt, len);

    return buffer(s.length()+sizeof(char), (byte*)s.c_str());
}