>No sane Base64 decoder should care.  But the code in crypto/evp/bio_b64.c 
>seems to be stupidly line oriented
>with small line buffers in an overcomplicated state, when a streaming Base64 
>encoder/decoder should be able
>to get away with a few unsigned ints and a state machine.

The current behavior and implementation is not great and nobody has gotten 
around to fixing it yet.

Love to see a patch.

        /r$

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Akamai Technology
Cambridge, MA

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