At 8:03 AM 6/27/94, Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
It is interesting, however, to put these two threads together. Since
everything after the = signs is ignored, we could conceivably define a
backwards-compatible extension to base64 in which there *was* a checksum
at the end, where older decoders will just ignore it.....
Yum! That would be very nice for one-pass senders like me.
This idea
intrigues me as an extension & future RFC, but NOT as a last-minute fix
to the final standard version of MIME.
Agreed.
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