Hello Raffaello,
I have added this comment from you, to that JDK-8259896 issue.
-Jaikiran
On 02/02/21 12:43 am, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
Hi,
in my opinion, the reporter of [1] is right in requiring that
extraneous characters be discarded, even inside the padding.
Indeed, the first full paragraph on [2] reads:
"Any characters outside of the base64 alphabet are to be ignored in
base64-encoded data."
where "the base64 alphabet" also includes the padding character '='
and "base64-encoded data" extends to padding as well, because padding
is an essential part of encoding.
The legitimate doubt expressed in comment [3] should thus be solved in
favor of a bug fix.
My 2 cents
Greetings
Raffaello
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[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8259896
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045#page-26
[3]
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8259896?focusedCommentId=14395485&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14395485
