/**
 * @file gmp_helper.h
 * 
 * @brief Interface of gmp_helper_t.
 * 
 */

/*
 * Copyright (C) 1997 Angelos D. Keromytis.
 * Copyright (C) 2005 Jan Hutter, Martin Willi
 * Hochschule fuer Technik Rapperswil
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
 * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
 * option) any later version.  See <http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.txt>.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
 * or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
 * for more details.
 */



#ifndef GMP_HELPER_H_
#define GMP_HELPER_H_

#include <gmp.h>

#include <types.h>


typedef struct gmp_helper_t gmp_helper_t;

/**
 * @brief Class with helper functions to manipulate gmp values.
 * 
 * @ingroup utils
 */
struct gmp_helper_t {

	/**
	 * Initialize an mpz_t to a random prime of specified size.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param			this calling object
	 * @param[out] var 	pointer to mpz_t variable to initialize
	 * @param[in] 		bytes length of given prime in bytes
	 */
	void (*init_prime) (gmp_helper_t *this, mpz_t *var, int bytes);
	
	/**
	 *  Convert network form (binary bytes, big-endian) to mpz_t of gmp library.
	 * 
	 * The given mpz_t gets initialized in this function.
	 * 
	 * @param this		calling private_gmp_helper_t object
	 * @param mpz_value pointer to a mpz_t value
	 * @param data		chunk_t containing the network form of data
	 */
	void (*chunk_to_mpz) (gmp_helper_t *this,mpz_t *mpz_value, chunk_t data);
	
	/**
	 * Convert mpz_t to network form (binary bytes, big-endian).
	 * 
	 * @param this		calling private_gmp_helper_t object
	 * @param mpz_value mpz_value to convert
	 * @param data		chunk_t where the data are written to
	 * @param bytes		number of bytes to copy 
	 */
	void (*mpz_to_chunk) (gmp_helper_t *this, mpz_t *mpz_value, chunk_t *data, size_t bytes);

	/**
	 * @brief Destroys an gmp_helper_t object.
	 *
	 * @param this 	gmp_helper_t object to destroy
	 * @return 		SUCCESS in any case
	 */
	void (*destroy) (gmp_helper_t *this);
};

/**
 * Creates a new gmp_helper_t object
 * 
 * @return			gmp_helper_t object
 * 
 * @ingroup utils
 */
gmp_helper_t *gmp_helper_create();

#endif /*GMP_HELPER_H_*/