Re: [yang-doctors] [Netconf] Yangdoctors last call review of draft-ietf-netconf-keystore-02

[Per Hedeland <[e-mail]>]

On 2017-07-28 13:30, Kent Watsen wrote:
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>> Nice idea, but actually it isn't - i.e. there does not exist an octet
>> sequence that will encode to that string, and a decoder "should" reject
>> it as invalid. But maybe that is a feature?:-)
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>> (By definition, there can be at most 2 trailing '=' characters in the encoding.
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> You know, this is what I always thought too, but the tool I was using told me the input was finally ok after adding the 3rd '=' on a fluke.

'mimencode' from the ancient 'metamail' package does that - i.e. it
complains (with a "warning") when the length isn't a multiple of 4, but
silently discards the partial result of decoding a 4-character chunk
with 3 trailing '=' pad-characters, as in "d===".

--Per

> Maybe the tool is broken, i'll double-check...
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> K. 
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