Re: [PATCH] base32, base64: disallow non-canonical encodings

[Simon Josefsson]

Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> writes:

> To give a little more context, this will avoid
> round trip issues like the following, by failing early:
>
>   $ echo "HelloWorld==" | base64 -d | base64
>   HelloWorlQ==

Thanks for background and patches!  There are use-cases for bad inputs
(both for good and malicious purposes), but I believe these should be
considered corner-cases and agree that the default should be to reject
them.

/Simon

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