problems with clients and cyrus-sasl-2.1.22

Andreas Hasenack ahasenack at terra.com.br
Thu May 25 09:55:23 EDT 2006


On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:27:23PM +0100, Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Thu May 25 14:16:27 2006, Dave Cridland wrote:
> >On Thu May 25 14:10:48 2006, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> >>But openssl's base64 can't decode the string, so perhaps there is 
> >>something
> >>wrong:
> >>$ echo -n 
> >>bm9uY2U9IkVZMEI5anR4NlNsc0tQSGhHTGovNmI4WW1qQ3BadDZCL1RGUXAva21kUEU9IixyZWFsbT0icGFuZG9yYS5jb25lY3RpdmEiLHFvcD0iYXV0aCxhdXRoLWludCxhdXRoLWNvbmYiLGNpcGhlcj0icmM0LTQwLHJjNC01NixyYzQsZGVzLDNkZXMiLG1heGJ1Zj00MDk2LGNoYXJzZXQ9dXRmLTgsYWxnb3JpdGhtPW1kNS1zZXNz 
> >>| openssl base64 -d
> >>$
> >>
> >>
> >Didn't somebody point out a bug with openSSL's base64 decoder a 
> >while back? This all rings a bell with me. I think it's a 
> >line-length issue or something.
> >
> >I'll see if I can track down the mail.
> 
> Ah, not a mail.
> 
> http://lookit.typepad.com/lookit/2006/04/lame_openssl_bu.html
> 
> This looks like your bug.

Is sasl using this de/encoder? Or is it just an issue with the command-line
openssl tool and it has nothing to do with this thread?


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