Re: [Nmh-workers] decode base64 auth info in -snoop output?

[David Levine]

Ken wrote:

> I don't think you can make an assumption what the _decoded_ base64 SASL
> tokens are; that is just talking about what appears in the AUTH messages,
> not what the tokens contents are.  I mean, we can't even make an assumption
> with regards to character set without knowing more about the particular
> SASL mechanism.

I'm not sure, but in any case, there's no character set identification.  So I
know what else we can do, other than display a single byte at a time, with
hexified non-printable (as ASCII) bytes.

> >I'd rather not extend the length of the current indications such as
> >tls-decrypted and sasl-decrypted.  tls-b64decryp and sasl-b64decryp ?
>
> Well, if you're using pure SASL encryption/decryption, encryption doesn't
> start until SASL is complete, so I'm not sure that works.

Looking at the code, it should.  But I like this better, anyway:

> Here's an idea.  How about:
>
> 334 b64<Username:>
> b64<address@hidden>

David