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Re: Embedded certificate image

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Subject: Re: Embedded certificate image
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:10:22 +1200
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Stefan Santesson <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>It seems that there are ways to store base64 encoded data in a URL. Since all
>images are located through a URL, this opens interesting possibilities if the
>URL actually contains the image data itself.

How big are these things going to get?  Anything beyond about 1024 characters
and you start running into problems with things that reject over-long URLs.

Peter.

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