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Re: MIME question about new draft

From section 3.1.1 of the draft:

RfC 2015 "MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)" [2] contains all
information necessary to strip or apply this layer. It may make use of the
Ascii Armor layer, but the octect stream may also encoded directly using
MIME itself.

	The above seems to permit PGP output not being ascii-encoded
but rather base-64 encoded.  Is my interpretation correct?  The
section implies that nothing from rfc2015 has changed, but section 2
of that document says "The ASCII armor output is the REQUIRED method
for data transfer."

	So, can the octet-stream portion of PGP/MIME messages be a
base64 encoding of 8-bit PGP output?  Thanks.


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Ben Escoto
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