+/**
+ * Return the base32crockford encoding of the given buffer.
+ *
+ * The returned string will be freshly allocated, and must be free'd
+ * with GNUNET_free().
+ *
+ * @param buffer with data
+ * @param size size of the buffer
+ * @return freshly allocated, null-terminated string
+ */
+char *
+GNUNET_STRINGS_data_to_string_alloc (const void *buf,
+ size_t size)
+{
+ char *str_buf;
+ size_t len = size * 8;
+ char *end;
+
+ if (len % 5 > 0)
+ len += 5 - len % 5;
+ len /= 5;
+ str_buf = GNUNET_malloc (len + 1);
+ end = GNUNET_STRINGS_data_to_string (buf, size, str_buf, len);
+ if (NULL == end)
+ {
+ GNUNET_free (str_buf);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ *end = '\0';
+ return str_buf;
+}
+
+