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Re: [smime] Double base64 encoding unavoidable in enveloped messages?

2010-06-10 01:52:35
"Jim Schaad" <ietf(_at_)augustcellars(_dot_)com> writes:

There are several things that you can look at.

Also, hasn't support for binary data been a MUST for many years now?  I
remember this from some time ago... I haven't done a full archaeological
investigation but RFC 3851 from 2004 already says (section 3.1.2):

  S/MIME implementations MUST be able to deal with binary MIME objects.
   
(followed by text on not using base64).

Peter.
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