>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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