// Copyright (c) 2013 Conformal Systems LLC. // Use of this source code is governed by an ISC // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package btcwire import ( "crypto/rand" "crypto/sha256" "encoding/binary" "fmt" "io" "math" ) // Maximum payload size for a variable length integer. const maxVarIntPayload = 9 // readElement reads the next sequence of bytes from r using little endian // depending on the concrete type of element pointed to. func readElement(r io.Reader, element interface{}) error { return binary.Read(r, binary.LittleEndian, element) } // readElements reads multiple items from r. It is equivalent to multiple // calls to readElement. func readElements(r io.Reader, elements ...interface{}) error { for _, element := range elements { err := readElement(r, element) if err != nil { return err } } return nil } // writeElement writes the little endian representation of element to w. func writeElement(w io.Writer, element interface{}) error { return binary.Write(w, binary.LittleEndian, element) } // writeElements writes multiple items to w. It is equivalent to multiple // calls to writeElement. func writeElements(w io.Writer, elements ...interface{}) error { for _, element := range elements { err := writeElement(w, element) if err != nil { return err } } return nil } // readVarInt reads a variable length integer from r and returns it as a uint64. func readVarInt(r io.Reader, pver uint32) (uint64, error) { b := make([]byte, 1) _, err := io.ReadFull(r, b) if err != nil { return 0, err } var rv uint64 discriminant := uint8(b[0]) switch discriminant { case 0xff: var u uint64 err = binary.Read(r, binary.LittleEndian, &u) if err != nil { return 0, err } rv = u case 0xfe: var u uint32 err = binary.Read(r, binary.LittleEndian, &u) if err != nil { return 0, err } rv = uint64(u) case 0xfd: var u uint16 err = binary.Read(r, binary.LittleEndian, &u) if err != nil { return 0, err } rv = uint64(u) default: rv = uint64(discriminant) } return rv, nil } // writeVarInt serializes val to w using a variable number of bytes depending // on its value. func writeVarInt(w io.Writer, pver uint32, val uint64) error { if val > math.MaxUint32 { err := writeElements(w, []byte{0xff}, uint64(val)) if err != nil { return err } return nil } if val > math.MaxUint16 { err := writeElements(w, []byte{0xfe}, uint32(val)) if err != nil { return err } return nil } if val >= 0xfd { err := writeElements(w, []byte{0xfd}, uint16(val)) if err != nil { return err } return nil } return writeElement(w, uint8(val)) } // readVarString reads a variable length string from r and returns it as a Go // string. A varString is encoded as a varInt containing the length of the // string, and the bytes that represent the string itself. An error is returned // if the length is greater than the maximum block payload size, since it would // not be possible to put a varString of that size into a block anyways and it // also helps protect against memory exhuastion attacks and forced panics // through malformed messages. func readVarString(r io.Reader, pver uint32) (string, error) { count, err := readVarInt(r, pver) if err != nil { return "", err } // Prevent variable length strings that are larger than the maximum // message size. It would be possible to cause memory exhaustion and // panics without a sane upper bound on this count. if count > maxMessagePayload { str := fmt.Sprintf("variable length string is too long "+ "[count %d, max %d]", count, maxMessagePayload) return "", messageError("readVarString", str) } buf := make([]byte, count) err = readElement(r, buf) if err != nil { return "", err } return string(buf), nil } // writeVarString serializes str to w as a varInt containing the length of the // string followed by the bytes that represent the string itself. func writeVarString(w io.Writer, pver uint32, str string) error { err := writeVarInt(w, pver, uint64(len(str))) if err != nil { return err } err = writeElement(w, []byte(str)) if err != nil { return err } return nil } // randomUint64 returns a cryptographically random uint64 value. This // unexported version takes a reader primarily to ensure the error paths // can be properly tested by passing a fake reader in the tests. func randomUint64(r io.Reader) (uint64, error) { b := make([]byte, 8) n, err := r.Read(b) if n != len(b) { return 0, io.ErrShortBuffer } if err != nil { return 0, err } return binary.BigEndian.Uint64(b), nil } // RandomUint64 returns a cryptographically random uint64 value. func RandomUint64() (uint64, error) { return randomUint64(rand.Reader) } // DoubleSha256 calculates sha256(sha256(b)) and returns the resulting bytes. func DoubleSha256(b []byte) []byte { hasher := sha256.New() hasher.Write(b) sum := hasher.Sum(nil) hasher.Reset() hasher.Write(sum) return hasher.Sum(nil) }