Re: [Multiformats] IETF 116 Dispatch Multiformats: Responses to Martin Dürst and Murray Kucherawy

["Murray S. Kucherawy" <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 9:47 AM Manu Sporny <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Murray Kucherawy said:
> > Does that example string decode into anything?
>
> The example string in the slide deck that I believe you're referring
> to is: uaGVsbG8gd29ybGQ
> [...]
>

I asked this because during that presentation I opened a shell on my Mac
laptop invoked the Linux "base64" command to decode it, handed it that
string, and sent EOF.  There was no output.  If I add a base64 padding
character I appear to get the right thing:

msk@msk-mbp ~ % base64 -d
aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ
msk@msk-mbp ~ % base64 -d
aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=
hello world%

Python appears to concur:

>>> base64.b64decode("aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File
"/opt/facebook/nix/store/p4yr7ykc4mzzbsh489w9bysqcr0l0r8a-python3-3.8.9/lib/python3.8/base64.py",
line 87, in b64decode
    return binascii.a2b_base64(s)
binascii.Error: Incorrect padding
>>> base64.b64decode("aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=")
b'hello world'

-MSK