Re: base64

[Earl Hood <earl () earlhood com>]

On September 25, 2003 at 11:30, Bennett Todd wrote:

> There's a third method, which I think is rather better than either
> of those.
>
> You can re-code everything into a canonical form. Some email client
> drop some punctuation characters in filenames? Delete all such
> characters from filenames. Different tools handle various i18n
> encoded filenames differently? Map to US-ASCII. Enforce length
> limits. Recode base64. Recode uuencoded chunks. Regularize
> non-standard MIME.

You cannot do this for signed messages, therefore, you still
need to either decode in all possible ways or drop the message
(or the offending entity).

--ewh