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.Dd $Mdocdate: November 15 2021 $
.Dt ASN1_ITEM_PACK 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ASN1_item_pack ,
.Nm ASN1_item_unpack
.Nd pack an ASN.1 object into an ASN1_STRING
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In openssl/asn1.h
.Ft ASN1_STRING *
.Fo ASN1_item_pack
.Fa "void *val_in"
.Fa "const ASN1_ITEM *it"
.Fa "ASN1_STRING **string_out"
.Fc
.Ft void *
.Fo ASN1_item_unpack
.Fa "const ASN1_STRING *string_in"
.Fa "const ASN1_ITEM *it"
.Fc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Fn ASN1_item_pack
encodes the object pointed to by
.Fa val_in
into DER format using
.Xr ASN1_item_i2d 3
and stores the encoded form in
.Pf ** Fa string_out .
If
.Fa string_out
or
.Pf * Fa string_out
is a
.Dv NULL
pointer, a new
.Vt ASN1_STRING
object is allocated and returned.
.Pp
.Fn ASN1_item_unpack
interprets the data in
.Fa string_in
as a DER- or BER-encoded byte array and decodes one value of the type
.Fa it
into a newly allocated object using
.Xr ASN1_item_d2i 3 .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Fn ASN1_item_pack
returns the modified or new object or
.Dv NULL
if memory allocation or encoding fails.
.Pp
.Fn ASN1_item_unpack
returns the new object or
.Dv NULL
if memory allocation or decoding fails.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ASN1_item_d2i 3 ,
.Xr ASN1_item_new 3 ,
.Xr ASN1_STRING_new 3
.Sh HISTORY
.Fn ASN1_item_pack
and
.Fn ASN1_item_unpack
first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.7 and have been available since
.Ox 3.2 .
.Sh BUGS
See the BUGS section in
.Xr ASN1_item_i2d 3 .