>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$ -- Principal Security Engineer Akamai Technology Cambridge, MA ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org