mbed TLS v2.3.0
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error.h File Reference

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#include <stddef.h>
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void mbedtls_strerror (int errnum, char *buffer, size_t buflen)
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Detailed Description

Error to string translation.

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Definition in file error.h.

Function Documentation

void mbedtls_strerror ( int  errnum,
char *  buffer,
size_t  buflen 
)

Error code layout.

Currently we try to keep all error codes within the negative space of 16 bits signed integers to support all platforms (-0x0001 - -0x7FFF). In addition we'd like to give two layers of information on the error if possible.

For that purpose the error codes are segmented in the following manner:

16 bit error code bit-segmentation

1 bit - Unused (sign bit) 3 bits - High level module ID 5 bits - Module-dependent error code 7 bits - Low level module errors

For historical reasons, low-level error codes are divided in even and odd, even codes were assigned first, and -1 is reserved for other errors.

Low-level module errors (0x0002-0x007E, 0x0003-0x007F)

Module Nr Codes assigned MPI 7 0x0002-0x0010 GCM 2 0x0012-0x0014 BLOWFISH 2 0x0016-0x0018 THREADING 3 0x001A-0x001E AES 2 0x0020-0x0022 CAMELLIA 2 0x0024-0x0026 XTEA 1 0x0028-0x0028 BASE64 2 0x002A-0x002C OID 1 0x002E-0x002E 0x000B-0x000B PADLOCK 1 0x0030-0x0030 DES 1 0x0032-0x0032 CTR_DBRG 4 0x0034-0x003A ENTROPY 3 0x003C-0x0040 0x003D-0x003F NET 11 0x0042-0x0052 0x0043-0x0045 ASN1 7 0x0060-0x006C PBKDF2 1 0x007C-0x007C HMAC_DRBG 4 0x0003-0x0009 CCM 2 0x000D-0x000F

High-level module nr (3 bits - 0x0...-0x7...) Name ID Nr of Errors PEM 1 9 PKCS#12 1 4 (Started from top) X509 2 19 PKCS5 2 4 (Started from top) DHM 3 9 PK 3 14 (Started from top) RSA 4 9 ECP 4 8 (Started from top) MD 5 4 CIPHER 6 6 SSL 6 17 (Started from top) SSL 7 31

Module dependent error code (5 bits 0x.00.-0x.F8.) Translate a mbed TLS error code into a string representation, Result is truncated if necessary and always includes a terminating null byte.

Parameters
errnumerror code
bufferbuffer to place representation in
buflenlength of the buffer