base64 0.21.0

encodes and decodes base64 as bytes or utf8
Documentation
use crate::{
    engine::{general_purpose::INVALID_VALUE, DecodePaddingMode},
    DecodeError, PAD_BYTE,
};

/// Decode the last 1-8 bytes, checking for trailing set bits and padding per the provided
/// parameters.
///
/// Returns the total number of bytes decoded, including the ones indicated as already written by
/// `output_index`.
pub(crate) fn decode_suffix(
    input: &[u8],
    input_index: usize,
    output: &mut [u8],
    mut output_index: usize,
    decode_table: &[u8; 256],
    decode_allow_trailing_bits: bool,
    padding_mode: DecodePaddingMode,
) -> Result<usize, DecodeError> {
    // Decode any leftovers that aren't a complete input block of 8 bytes.
    // Use a u64 as a stack-resident 8 byte buffer.
    let mut leftover_bits: u64 = 0;
    let mut morsels_in_leftover = 0;
    let mut padding_bytes = 0;
    let mut first_padding_index: usize = 0;
    let mut last_symbol = 0_u8;
    let start_of_leftovers = input_index;

    for (i, &b) in input[start_of_leftovers..].iter().enumerate() {
        // '=' padding
        if b == PAD_BYTE {
            // There can be bad padding bytes in a few ways:
            // 1 - Padding with non-padding characters after it
            // 2 - Padding after zero or one characters in the current quad (should only
            //     be after 2 or 3 chars)
            // 3 - More than two characters of padding. If 3 or 4 padding chars
            //     are in the same quad, that implies it will be caught by #2.
            //     If it spreads from one quad to another, it will be an invalid byte
            //     in the first quad.
            // 4 - Non-canonical padding -- 1 byte when it should be 2, etc.
            //     Per config, non-canonical but still functional non- or partially-padded base64
            //     may be treated as an error condition.

            if i % 4 < 2 {
                // Check for case #2.
                let bad_padding_index = start_of_leftovers
                    + if padding_bytes > 0 {
                        // If we've already seen padding, report the first padding index.
                        // This is to be consistent with the normal decode logic: it will report an
                        // error on the first padding character (since it doesn't expect to see
                        // anything but actual encoded data).
                        // This could only happen if the padding started in the previous quad since
                        // otherwise this case would have been hit at i % 4 == 0 if it was the same
                        // quad.
                        first_padding_index
                    } else {
                        // haven't seen padding before, just use where we are now
                        i
                    };
                return Err(DecodeError::InvalidByte(bad_padding_index, b));
            }

            if padding_bytes == 0 {
                first_padding_index = i;
            }

            padding_bytes += 1;
            continue;
        }

        // Check for case #1.
        // To make '=' handling consistent with the main loop, don't allow
        // non-suffix '=' in trailing chunk either. Report error as first
        // erroneous padding.
        if padding_bytes > 0 {
            return Err(DecodeError::InvalidByte(
                start_of_leftovers + first_padding_index,
                PAD_BYTE,
            ));
        }

        last_symbol = b;

        // can use up to 8 * 6 = 48 bits of the u64, if last chunk has no padding.
        // Pack the leftovers from left to right.
        let shift = 64 - (morsels_in_leftover + 1) * 6;
        let morsel = decode_table[b as usize];
        if morsel == INVALID_VALUE {
            return Err(DecodeError::InvalidByte(start_of_leftovers + i, b));
        }

        leftover_bits |= (morsel as u64) << shift;
        morsels_in_leftover += 1;
    }

    match padding_mode {
        DecodePaddingMode::Indifferent => { /* everything we care about was already checked */ }
        DecodePaddingMode::RequireCanonical => {
            if (padding_bytes + morsels_in_leftover) % 4 != 0 {
                return Err(DecodeError::InvalidPadding);
            }
        }
        DecodePaddingMode::RequireNone => {
            if padding_bytes > 0 {
                // check at the end to make sure we let the cases of padding that should be InvalidByte
                // get hit
                return Err(DecodeError::InvalidPadding);
            }
        }
    }

    // When encoding 1 trailing byte (e.g. 0xFF), 2 base64 bytes ("/w") are needed.
    // / is the symbol for 63 (0x3F, bottom 6 bits all set) and w is 48 (0x30, top 2 bits
    // of bottom 6 bits set).
    // When decoding two symbols back to one trailing byte, any final symbol higher than
    // w would still decode to the original byte because we only care about the top two
    // bits in the bottom 6, but would be a non-canonical encoding. So, we calculate a
    // mask based on how many bits are used for just the canonical encoding, and optionally
    // error if any other bits are set. In the example of one encoded byte -> 2 symbols,
    // 2 symbols can technically encode 12 bits, but the last 4 are non canonical, and
    // useless since there are no more symbols to provide the necessary 4 additional bits
    // to finish the second original byte.

    let leftover_bits_ready_to_append = match morsels_in_leftover {
        0 => 0,
        2 => 8,
        3 => 16,
        4 => 24,
        6 => 32,
        7 => 40,
        8 => 48,
        // can also be detected as case #2 bad padding above
        _ => unreachable!(
            "Impossible: must only have 0 to 8 input bytes in last chunk, with no invalid lengths"
        ),
    };

    // if there are bits set outside the bits we care about, last symbol encodes trailing bits that
    // will not be included in the output
    let mask = !0 >> leftover_bits_ready_to_append;
    if !decode_allow_trailing_bits && (leftover_bits & mask) != 0 {
        // last morsel is at `morsels_in_leftover` - 1
        return Err(DecodeError::InvalidLastSymbol(
            start_of_leftovers + morsels_in_leftover - 1,
            last_symbol,
        ));
    }

    // TODO benchmark simply converting to big endian bytes
    let mut leftover_bits_appended_to_buf = 0;
    while leftover_bits_appended_to_buf < leftover_bits_ready_to_append {
        // `as` simply truncates the higher bits, which is what we want here
        let selected_bits = (leftover_bits >> (56 - leftover_bits_appended_to_buf)) as u8;
        output[output_index] = selected_bits;
        output_index += 1;

        leftover_bits_appended_to_buf += 8;
    }

    Ok(output_index)
}