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Re: base64 and checksums

1991-10-30 17:18:58
Wrong!  There is a difference you're over-looking.  A person can look at
pseudo-ascii with a text editor and either fix it or make sense of it,
if there's a problem.  A person can not do this with a binary stream.

Bottom line: for 7bit and quoted-printable, checksums don't buy you
much.  For base64. because it is largely used to encode binary stuff.

/mtr

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