So I am trying to read a .bmp file in C. I am later going to encrypt the file using openssl libraries - but that's only background info.
I need to open the file in binary mode (obviously) but for whatever reason when I try to open the file, it only reads in 4 bytes. When I try to output this exact file I just opened (for error testing) it outputs the following - 88 24 AD FB
.
In my troubleshooting I decided to try this on a text file (54 bytes) and I get the exact same result.
#include <openssl/conf.h>
#include <openssl/evp.h>
#include <openssl/err.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(){
char * fileName="pic_original.bmp";
//read the file from given filename in binary mode
printf("Start to read the .bmp file \n");
FILE *image;
image = fopen(fileName,"rb");
//print the size of the image (4 bytes every damn time)
printf("Size of image: %d\n",sizeof(image));
//output the exact file that was read (error testing)
FILE *test;
test = fopen("./test.bin", "w");
fwrite(image, sizeof(image), 1, test);
fclose(test);
fclose(image);
return 1;
}
This is the image (uploaded as png for some reason)
Not exactly sure where I'm going wrong here but I'm not very seasoned in C.
Cheers, Liam
EDIT 1:
//allocate memory for the header and image
char *headerBuf = (char *)malloc(54);
char *imageBuf = (char *)malloc(sizeof(image)-54); //this line is wrong - thanks to user EOF
//allocate memory for the final ciphertext
char *imagecipherCBC = (char *)malloc(sizeof(image)); //wrong also
//read first 54 bytes (header)
rewind(image);
fread(headerBuf,54,1,image);
//read the bitmap image until the end of the file
fread(imageBuf,sizeof(image),1,image); //also wrong
Well, The size of the image is of course, 4 bytes which is a file pointer on a 32 bit machine.
I think you have to prepare some image buffer of your bmp file as a simple example, then you can do encrypt and decrypt the contents of this image buffer if your file is not too big.
static void read_from_image(char *imageBuf, int fileLength)
{
const char * outFileName="c:/DEV/temp/test.bin";
char headerBuf[54];
char *imagecipherCBC;
FILE *test;
test = fopen(outFileName, "wb");
//allocate memory for the final ciphertext
imagecipherCBC = (char *)malloc(fileLength *sizeof(char));
//read first 54 bytes (header)
//fread(headerBuf,54,1,image);
memcpy(headerBuf, imageBuf, 54 * sizeof(char));
//read the bitmap image until the end of the file
//fread(imageBuf,sizeof(image),1,image); //also wrong
fwrite(imageBuf, fileLength * sizeof(char), 1, test);
fflush(test);
fclose(test);
free(imagecipherCBC),imagecipherCBC = NULL;
free(imageBuf),imageBuf = NULL;
return;
}
You can have a file length and an image buffer in a main function.
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
const char * fileName="c:/DEV/temp/pic_original.bmp";
int fileLength = 0;
FILE *image;
char *imageBuffer;
imageBuffer = NULL;
image = fopen(fileName,"rb");
printf("read the file from given filename in binary mode \n");
printf("Start to read the .bmp file \n");
//try to get a file length;
fseek(image, 0, SEEK_END);
fileLength = ftell(image);
fseek(image, 0, SEEK_SET);
rewind(image);
imageBuffer = (char*)malloc(fileLength * sizeof(char));
//print the size of the image (4 bytes every damn time)
printf("read the file from given filename in binary mode \n");
printf("Size of image file pointer: %d\n",sizeof(image));
printf("Size of image: %d\n",fileLength);
//output the exact file that was read (error testing)
fread(imageBuffer,sizeof(char),fileLength*sizeof(char), image);
fclose(image);
read_from_image(imageBuffer, fileLength);
return 0;
}
good luck