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Re: Initial comments on draft-ietf-822ext-mime-imb-00

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp> Wed, 29 June 1994 04:48 UTC

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From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
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Subject: Re: Initial comments on draft-ietf-822ext-mime-imb-00
To: Steve Dorner <sdorner@qualcomm.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 11:46:14 -0000
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In-Reply-To: <aa348fb90a02101bcff1@[192.17.5.10]>; from "Steve Dorner" at Jun 27, 94 9:23 am
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> At 8:03 AM 6/27/94, Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
> >It is interesting, however, to put these two threads together.  Since
> >everything after the = signs is ignored, we could conceivably define a
> >backwards-compatible extension to base64 in which there *was* a checksum
> >at the end, where older decoders will just ignore it.....
> 
> Yum!  That would be very nice for one-pass senders like me.

Am I forced to use base64 for MD5 even with a fully-8-bit-transparent
reliable transport?

							Masataka Ohta

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