naive conversion

Definition

Non-CESR Base64 conversion. How people are used to using the Base64 encode and decode. Without pre-padding etc all the stuff CESR does to ensure aligns on 24 bit boundaries so CESR never uses the '=' pad character. But naive Base64 will pad if the length is not 24 bit aligned.
Source: Samuel Smith in issue 34

Naive conversion is a text to binary conversion or vice versa that doesn't anticipate on either composability and / or on the concatenation capability of the result of such an operation.

CESR related

In the IETF draft CESR there's much attention for naive Base64 conversions, because it helps explaining the necessity of stable code characters and padding in CESR to achieve:

• self-framing
• round-robin composability
• concatenation options
• pipelined streaming