diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/util/io/pem/PemReader.java b/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/util/io/pem/PemReader.java
index 7156818784..2d681b9bee 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/util/io/pem/PemReader.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/util/io/pem/PemReader.java
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ public PemObject readPemObject()
 
         if (line != null)
         {
-            line = line.substring(BEGIN.length());
+            line = line.substring(BEGIN.length()).trim();
             int index = line.indexOf('-');
 
             if (index > 0 && line.endsWith("-----") && (line.length() - index) == 5)
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ private PemObject loadObject(String type)
         throws IOException
     {
         String          line;
-        String          endMarker = END + type;
+        String          endMarker = END + type + "-----";
         StringBuffer    buf = new StringBuffer();
         List            headers = new ArrayList();
 
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ private PemObject loadObject(String type)
                 continue;
             }
 
-            if (line.indexOf(endMarker) != -1)
+            if (line.indexOf(endMarker) == 0)
             {
                 break;
             }
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/bouncycastle/util/io/pem/test/AllTests.java b/core/src/test/java/org/bouncycastle/util/io/pem/test/AllTests.java
index 0edf79f326..189d829b0f 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/bouncycastle/util/io/pem/test/AllTests.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/bouncycastle/util/io/pem/test/AllTests.java
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 import junit.framework.TestCase;
 import junit.framework.TestSuite;
 import org.bouncycastle.test.PrintTestResult;
+import org.bouncycastle.util.Arrays;
 import org.bouncycastle.util.io.pem.PemHeader;
 import org.bouncycastle.util.io.pem.PemObject;
 import org.bouncycastle.util.io.pem.PemReader;
@@ -20,6 +21,26 @@
 public class AllTests
     extends TestCase
 {
+    private static final String blob1 =
+        "-----BEGIN BLOB-----\r\n"
+        + "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==\r\n"
+        + "-----END BLOB-----\r\n";
+
+    private static final String blob2 =
+        "-----BEGIN BLOB-----   \r\n"
+        + "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==\r\n"
+        + "-----END BLOB-----    \r\n";
+
+    private static final String blob3 =
+        "    -----BEGIN BLOB-----\r\n"
+        + "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==\r\n"
+        + "-----END BLOB-----\r\n";
+
+    private static final String blob4 =
+        "-----BEGIN BLOB-----\r\n"
+        + "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==\r\n"
+        + "    -----END BLOB-----\r\n";
+
     public void testPemLength()
         throws IOException
     {
@@ -54,6 +75,53 @@ public void testMalformed()
         assertNull(rd.readPemObject());
     }
 
+    public void testRegularBlob()
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        PemReader rd = new PemReader(new StringReader(blob1));
+
+        PemObject obj = rd.readPemObject();
+
+        assertEquals("BLOB", obj.getType());
+        assertTrue(Arrays.areEqual(new byte[64], obj.getContent()));
+    }
+
+    public void testRegularBlobTrailing()
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        PemReader rd = new PemReader(new StringReader(blob2));
+
+        PemObject obj = rd.readPemObject();
+
+        assertEquals("BLOB", obj.getType());
+        assertTrue(Arrays.areEqual(new byte[64], obj.getContent()));
+    }
+
+    public void testRegularBlobBeginFault()
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        PemReader rd = new PemReader(new StringReader(blob3));
+
+        PemObject obj = rd.readPemObject();
+
+        assertNull(rd.readPemObject());
+    }
+
+    public void testRegularBlobEndFault()
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        PemReader rd = new PemReader(new StringReader(blob4));
+
+        try
+        {
+            PemObject obj = rd.readPemObject();
+        }
+        catch (IOException e)
+        {
+            assertEquals("-----END BLOB----- not found", e.getMessage());
+        }
+    }
+
     private void lengthTest(String type, List headers, byte[] data)
         throws IOException
     {