- From: Steve Hole <steve.hole@messagingdirect.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 13:12:17 -0700
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Cc: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3@torque.pothole.com>, ned.freed@mrochek.com, James M Galvin <galvin@elistx.com>, discuss@apps.ietf.org
On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:20:26 -0500 Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> wrote: > while Ned is correct that there's no need to do this when downgrading > from 8bit/binary/q-p to base64 because multipart boundaries inherently > cannot be confused with base64, there are re-encoders that can "upgrade" > as well as "downgrade", and which use the same code path to convert from > one encoding to another regardless of whether the destination is base64. > for those re-encoders it's easier to always rewrite boundary markers. OK, I understand that. But, if we have per-part MIC's calculated, why do we care whether boundary markers are rewritten or not? Cheers. --- Steve Hole Chief Technology Officer - - Billing and Payment Systems ACI Worldwide - MessagingDirect <mailto:Steve.Hole@MessagingDirect.com> Phone: 780-424-4922
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