I have a small problem. I am attempting to decode a cookie which appears to be Base64 encoded. However, using MIME::Base64's decode_base64 function is giving me something which cannot be parsed.

Below is what the company security web page tells me about my own cookie. However, I cannot get their "cyphertext" to decode to something which can be parsed into what they have in the table.

Note that they don't show a few fields near the end, and I know for a fact that the last field is an MD5 hash of an RSA key, so it won't be readable. But the rest . . . how am I supposed to parse the result of decode_base64? It's garbage!

Please help!!!
Your WSL certificate/cookie in plain text is:
issue date Fri Mar 16 19:27:12 2001
exp. date Sat Mar 17 05:27:12 2001
issuer issuer here
cdsid JROBISO2
ip addr. 19.82.24.80
aci group NONOVVM
dept no. 1239D709
org. code ENG
employee type V
mr role N
organization organization here
company company here
div. abbr. VP

Your WSL cookie in ciphertext:
OrJpEDqy9bBwcm9mc3B3MkB3ZWJmYXJtLmRlYXJib3JuLmZvcmQuY29tAGpyb2Jpc28yADE5LjgyLjI0LjgwAE5PTk9WVk0AMTIzOUQ3MDkARU5HAFYATgBWSVNURU9OAFZJU1RFT04uQ09SUE9SQVRJT04AVlAANTIwNQBERUFSQk9STgBNSQBVU0EATlVMTC5jZW50b2tzAACKnsXgqAYrukdta7sDd65KLWOchc53KcNMRqeTYX4rLmr/XID4lE2I2cNyIjZApSG9D0JWR1jUzoo3t53alPsL
the code I am using is:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
#
# this is an attempt to make a cleaner read of the Ford-WSL cookie

use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use MIME::Base64;
use CGI::Cookie;

my $query = new CGI;
my %cookies = fetch CGI::Cookie;
my $cookie = $cookies{'Cookie-Name'}->value;

print $query->header;
print $query->start_html;
print "<h1>Cookie</h1><br>\n";
print "Straight cookie: $cookie\n<br><br>\n";
my $decoded = decode_base64($cookie);
#write_file($decoded);
print "and Base64 decoded:  $decoded <br><br>\n";
print $query->end_html;

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Edit: chipmunk 2001-03-16

Edit: chipmunk 2001-03-16

In reply to Base64 Encoded cookie is giving me headaches! by tame1

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