Use glib's base64 encode and decode functions if they're available. Our purple_base64_decode() implementation is horrendously ineffecient, by the way. It allocates memory inside a while loop while decoding. It should allocate memory ahead of time (the glib version does this). The glib version is here if anyone wants to steal it: http://git.gnome.org./cgit/glib/tree/glib/gbase64.c