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

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Tue Feb 2 19:03:04 UTC 2010


John Dennis wrote:
> 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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