Re: openssl Vs perl encode

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

Bhasker C V wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I am sure that this is more of a security question and does not
> pertain to 'debian', please advice me to re-route this mail to
> appropriate list if you are offended.
>
>  I am trying to encode using base64 to get data for SMTP
> authentication which i am experimenting upon. I stumbled upon this
> issue. I am not sure why this is happening.
>
>
>  Say the text to be encoded is  "help@base.com"
>
>  $ perl
> use MIME::Base64;
> print encode_base64("help@base.com");

The @ is special in strings inside " " in Perl, so you need to escape it
writing \@ or use single quotes.

> $ echo "help@base.com" | openssl base64

And here you're adding a newline character after the address.

These two give the same result (which is neither of the ones you got
before :- ) ) :

$ perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("help\@base.com"); '
aGVscEBiYXNlLmNvbQ==
$ echo -n "help@base.com" |openssl base64
aGVscEBiYXNlLmNvbQ==

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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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