Re: [boost] [serialization] Base64 padding in basic_text_oprimitive

From: Vyacheslav E. Andrejev (mortituris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-09 13:43:31

Hello Robert,

RR> Hmmm - I wasn't aware that base64 had a "principle" that output
RR> length is a multiple of 4 bytes.
Well, I doubt that it is fundamental, more likely the fundamental is to notify 
decoder that the rest of a stream should be padded with zeros when it encounters 
'=' sign at the end. But the consequence of it is definetly that base64 encoded 
length is multiple of 4. But anyway the point is that the code has a flaw 
at least since (padding > 2) is always false.

Slava.
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