Incorrect padding

ael law_ence.dev at ntlworld.com
Tue Feb 28 12:58:43 UTC 2017


On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:35:32PM +0000, ael wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 07:22:22PM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:57:40AM +0100, Lele Gaifax wrote:
> > 
> > > FWIW, I reported what seems the same error one year ago, with subject
> > > "binascii.Error: Incorrect padding" (unfortunately I'm not able to reference
> > > the thread as gmane interface isn't helping).
> > > 
> > > In my case, the reason was that the AUTHENTICATE command resulted in a plain
> > > string containing "go ahead".
> > > 
> > > See also https://sourceforge.net/p/imaplib2/bugs/11/
> > 
> 
> Yes. I just used the cyrus imtest program to see what is happening, and
> indeed this is exactly the problem:
> 
> SSL_connect:SSLv3/TLS write client hello

Sorry. Scrub that. I spoke too soon. Looks like another problem.
imtest *does* successfully connect without reporting a violation.

ael




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