The following reply was made to PR bin/33319; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/33319: there ought to be a base64 decoder in /usr/bin
Date: 20 Apr 2006 16:09:36 -0400

 Seebs <seebs@guild.plethora.net> writes:
 
 > 	Add this public domain base64 encoder/decoder to the system.
 > 
 > 	http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/
 
 SUSv3 specifies a base64 encoder/decoder in the form of a -m option to
 uuencode(1), and the ability for uudecode(1) to parse it out. Since
 the line-by-line nature is a lot like uuencode'd format, this makes
 more sense than it might seem to at first blush.
 
 (but as noted, "openssl base64" will do the encoding job; I'm less
 clear it can do decoding)
 
         - Nathan