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Re: The case against redundancy and isolation

To: "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security" <PADGETT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, IETF OpenPGP <ietf-open-pgp@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: The case against redundancy and isolation
From: Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 21 Nov 1997 11:23:16 GMT
Sender: owner-ietf-open-pgp@xxxxxxx

>Perhaps I am missing something but why not a MIME module type for
>AsciiArmouring ?

Its not needed - something that seems to be understated is that ASCII
Armouring is identical to the standard MIME encoding (Base64) with the
addition of a checksum, and as far as I can tell tht checksum is
unneccessary as (some) PGP packets include checksums.


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Lindsay Mathieson
Black Paw Communications
	Using MailCat for Win32 Beta Vs 2.6.1.2, on November 21, 1997, in Win95 4.0
	http://www.blackpaw.com/

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