Re: openssl Vs perl encode

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@2008.43-1.org>]

Hi,

Bhasker C V <bhasker@unixindia.com> writes:

>  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");
> aGVscC5jb20=

Perl understands the "@base" as an array here.  So you only encode
"help.com" in base64.  Use ' instead of " and you get

    aGVscEBiYXNlLmNvbQ==

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

Now the only difference is the new-line produced by echo.

Regards,
Ansgar

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