From: Michael Sierchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
kudzu> Base64 encoding was devised precisely to avoid problems with
kudzu> EBCDIC, which were rife with uuencoding, etc. As for DER-encoded
kudzu> stuff, I can't imagine what the problem is.
If I understand everything correctly, the letters, digits and so on do
not share the same numeric (character code) space in EBCDIC and in
ASCII. With that in consideration, I can very well see problems if a
file is written with ASCII encoding and later on read with the
assumption that it was written with EBCDIC encoding. Base64 wouldn't
help in this case, or?
kudzu> Routines that print stuff or compare strings will have to
kudzu> do some conversion...
Exactly. It's very possible that later changes in OpenSSL lack with
respect to that. It's also possible that there are incorrect
assumptions as to what encoding is assumed when reading a PEM file...
Both issues need to be considered and dealt with, or at least
documented.
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