Sending a UIImage over a simple socket as a CFString

Question

I was trying to send a UIImage over a simple socket that only accepts CFString for passing data.

I tried converting the UIImage into NSData into NSString into CFString and back, but the final UIImage is always nil.

Conversion:

NSData *dataImage = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image);
NSString *stringImage = [dataImage base64EncodedStringWithOptions:NSDataBase64Encoding64CharacterLineLength];

Reconversion:

NSString *string = (__bridge NSString *)(object);
NSData *imageData = [[NSData alloc] initWithBase64EncodedString:string options:0];
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData];