Merge pull request #4852

057c279c epee: add SSL support (Martijn Otto)

1 files changed, 63 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/epee/src/hex.cpp b/contrib/epee/src/hex.cpp
index 5c8acc8be..8421dcae9 100644
--- a/contrib/epee/src/hex.cpp
+++ b/contrib/epee/src/hex.cpp
@@ -83,4 +83,67 @@ namespace epee
   {
     return write_hex(out, src);
   }
+
+  std::vector<uint8_t> from_hex::vector(boost::string_ref src)
+  {
+    // should we include a specific character
+    auto include = [](char input) {
+        // we ignore spaces and colons
+        return !std::isspace(input) && input != ':';
+    };
+
+    // the number of relevant characters to decode
+    auto count = std::count_if(src.begin(), src.end(), include);
+
+    // this must be a multiple of two, otherwise we have a truncated input
+    if (count % 2) {
+      throw std::length_error{ "Invalid hexadecimal input length" };
+    }
+
+    std::vector<uint8_t> result;
+    result.reserve(count / 2);
+
+    // the data to work with (std::string is always null-terminated)
+    auto data = src.data();
+
+    // convert a single hex character to an unsigned integer
+    auto char_to_int = [](const char *input) {
+      switch (std::tolower(*input)) {
+        case '0': return  0;
+        case '1': return  1;
+        case '2': return  2;
+        case '3': return  3;
+        case '4': return  4;
+        case '5': return  5;
+        case '6': return  6;
+        case '7': return  7;
+        case '8': return  8;
+        case '9': return  9;
+        case 'a': return 10;
+        case 'b': return 11;
+        case 'c': return 12;
+        case 'd': return 13;
+        case 'e': return 14;
+        case 'f': return 15;
+        default:  throw std::range_error{ "Invalid hexadecimal input" };
+      }
+    };
+
+    // keep going until we reach the end
+    while (data[0] != '\0') {
+      // skip unwanted characters
+      if (!include(data[0])) {
+        ++data;
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      // convert two matching characters to int
+      auto high = char_to_int(data++);
+      auto low  = char_to_int(data++);
+
+      result.push_back(high << 4 | low);
+    }
+
+    return result;
+  }
 }