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DERUNPACK(3) derunpack 1.0 DERUNPACK(3)

NAME

packet.derunpack - DER decoding module

DESCRIPTION

Decode using ASN.1 DER (Distinguished Encoding Representation) ASN.1: Abstract Syntax Notation 1

This module does not completely decode all DER data types, the following is a list of supported data types in this implementation:
INTEGER,
BIT_STRING,
NULL,
OBJECT_IDENTIFIER,
GeneralizedTime,
Strings (OCTET STRING, PrintableString, etc.)
SEQUENCE OF,
SEQUENCE,

CLASSES

class DERunpack(packet.unpack.Unpack)

DER unpack object
Usage:

from packet.derunpack import DERunpack
x = DERunpack(buffer)
# Get the decoded object structure for the stream bytes in buffer
obj = x.get_item()
Where obj is of the form:
obj = {
application = {
context-tag0 = int|list|dictionary,
context-tag1 = int|list|dictionary,
...
context-tagN = int|list|dictionary,
}
}
Example:
For the following ASN.1 definition:
TEST ::= [APPLICATION 10] SEQUENCE {
id [0] INTEGER,
numbers [1] SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
data [2] SEQUENCE {
-- NOTE: first tag is [1], not [0]
type [1] INTEGER,
value [2] PrintableString,
},
}
Using the streamed bytes of the above ASN.1 definition,
the following is returned by get_item():
obj = {
10 = { # Application 10
0: 53, # id: context-tag=0, value=53
1: [1,2,3], # numbers: context-tag=1, value=[1,2,3]
2: { # data: context-tag=1, value=structure
1: 2, # id: context-tag=1, value=2
2: "test", # id: context-tag=2, value="test"
}
}
}
Methods defined here:
---------------------
der_date(self, size)
Return a date time of type GeneralizedTime
Type GeneralizedTime takes values of the year, month, day, hour,
minute, second, and second fraction in any of following three forms:
Local time: "YYYYMMDDHH[MM[SS[.fff]]]"
Universal time (UTC): "YYYYMMDDHH[MM[SS[.fff]]]Z"
Difference between local and UTC times" "YYYYMMDDHH[MM[SS[.fff]]]+|-HHMM".
Where the optional fff is accurate to three decimal places
der_integer(self, size=None, unsigned=False)
Return an integer given the size of the integer in bytes
Number of bytes for the integer, if this option is not given
the method get_size() is used to get the size of the integer
Usually an unsigned integer is encoded with a leading byte
of all zeros but when decoding data of BIT_STRING type all
decoded bytes must be unsigned so they can be concatenated
correctly
der_oid(self, size)
Return an object identifier (OID)
get_item(self, oid=None)
Get item from the byte stream using TLV
This is a recursive function where the tag and length are decoded
and then this function is called to get the value if tag is one of
primitive or non-constructed types.
Calling this method right after instantiation of the object will
decode the whole ASN.1 representation
get_size(self)
Get the size of element (length in TLV)
Short form: bit8=0, one octet, length given by bits 7-1 (0-127)
Long form:  bit8=1, 2-127 octet, bits 7-1 give number of length

objects Example:
Short form (bit8=0):
0x0f (0b00001111): length is 0x0f (15)
Long form (bit8=1 of first byte):
0x820123 (0b100000100000000100100011):
length is given by the next 2 bytes (first 7-1 bits 0x02)
Next two bytes gives the length 0x0123 = 291
get_tag(self)
Get the tag along with the tag class and form or P/C bit
The first byte(s) of the TLV (Type, Length, Value) is the type
which has the following format:

First byte:
bits 8-7: tag class
bit 6: form or P/C (Constructed if bit is set)
bits 5-1: tag number (0-30)
if all bits are 1's (decimal 31) then one or more
bytes are required for the tag
If bits 5-1 are all 1's in the first byte, the tag is given
in the following bytes:
Extra byes for tag:
bit 8: next byte is part of tag
bits 7-1: tag bits Examples:
0xa1 (0b10100001): Short form
tag class: 0b10 = 2 (CONTEXT)
P/C: 0b0 = 0 (not constructed)
0x1f8107 (0b000111111000000100000111): Long form
tag class: 0b00 = 0 (UNIVERSAL -- standard tag)
P/C: 0b0 = 0 (not constructed)
tag: 0b11111 = 31 (tag is given in following bytes)
First extra byte: 0x81 (0b10000001)
bit8=1 : there is an extra byte after this
bits 7-1: 0b0000001 (0x01 most significant 7 bits of tag)
Second extra byte: 0x07 (0b00000111)
bit8=1 : this is the last byte
bits 7-1: 0b0000111 (0x07 least significant 7 bits of tag)
Tag number: big-endian bits from extra bytes (7 bits each)
14 bits: 0x0087 (0x01 << 7 + 0x07) = 135

SEE ALSO

packet.unpack(3)

BUGS

No known bugs.

AUTHOR

Jorge Mora (mora@netapp.com)

21 March 2023 NFStest 3.2