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Re: RIP: Crypto-Key header field

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 23 November 2016 23:31 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:27:14 +1100
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Subject: Re: RIP: Crypto-Key header field
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On 23 November 2016 at 18:51, Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
>> I see lot of additional works and potential bugs by allowing non-UTF-8
>> octet sequences, and something like zero advantages.
>
>
> Yes indeed. Not knowing what character encoding is used for a string, or not
> knowing whether something is binary or text, it a lot of pain, and no
> "virtue" at all. We have a lot of experience with that; let's not repeat
> these same mistakes over and over again.

This presumes that the field is a string.  We already have a use for
it that treats it as an octet sequence.  If someone cares to designate
a usage that needs strings, then UTF-8 is available to them.

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