[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 365 be smarter about base64 decoding

John Dennis jdennis at redhat.com
Mon Feb 1 19:33:13 UTC 2010


On 02/01/2010 02:05 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Try to be a little smarter about base64 decoding certificates. For the
> most part certificates are handled as DER blobs internally. When loading
> certs from files or an NSS database they may come in as base64-endoded
> blobs but they will also have BEGIN/END headers to use those to
> distinguish between what should and shouldn't be decoded.
>
> Hopefully this will be the last we see of this.
>
> I was going to address some of the code duplication that John pointed
> out earlier in this patch but figured I'd keep this short and simple and
> do that work later.
>
> rob

ACK

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