Bhasker C V wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am sure that this is more of a security question and does not
> pertain to 'debian', please advice me to re-route this mail to
> appropriate list if you are offended.
>
> I am trying to encode using base64 to get data for SMTP
> authentication which i am experimenting upon. I stumbled upon this
> issue. I am not sure why this is happening.
>
>
> Say the text to be encoded is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>
> $ perl
> use MIME::Base64;
> print encode_base64("[EMAIL PROTECTED]");
The @ is special in strings inside " " in Perl, so you need to escape it
writing \@ or use single quotes.
> $ echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" | openssl base64
And here you're adding a newline character after the address.
These two give the same result (which is neither of the ones you got
before :- ) ) :
$ perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"); '
aGVscEBiYXNlLmNvbQ==
$ echo -n "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" |openssl base64
aGVscEBiYXNlLmNvbQ==
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