MIME nesting1992-06-02 16:36:26No technical justification has been offered for why PEM requires nested encodings. Without nested encodings, there would be no natural way of indicating WHAT was privacy-enhanced and therefore privacy-enhancement would likely be limited to vanilla text. Also, there are plenty of "security types" that believe that the structure/content-type of a message may be as sensitive as the content of a message.
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