Monty Evans added the comment:
Ah, that is enlightening. It hadn't occured to me that you might want to allow
for minor mistakes in the encoder - I must've missed that part of the standard.
Thanks to both of you for cleari
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New submission from Monty Evans:
Tested in Python 2.7 and 3.5 - the base64 module contains a couple of decoding
methods, 'standard_b64decode()' and 'b66decode()' which incorrectly decode
certain invalid base64 strings. This is outlined in detail here:
"https://st
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severity: normal
status: open
title: Base64 decoding gives incorrect outputs.
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5
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