On 11 Nov 1992 14:13:16 -0700 (PDT), Ned Freed
<NED(_at_)SIGURD(_dot_)INNOSOFT(_dot_)COM> said:
Gateways may perform a variety of transformations on plain text
messages, such as character code translation, whitespace
removal/padding, etc. When a message passes through a gateway, the
gateway can perform any necessary transformations on the encrypted
representation of a message, but not on the the underlying plain text
message.
Ned> This is precisely the of thing I'm trying to avoid. A gateway
Ned> that performs these sorts of transformations on the encrypted
Ned> representation will in all probability damage the encrypted
Ned> material beyond any possibility of repair.
Perhaps I was unclear. What I meant was that when the BASE64
encoding of a pem message passes through an ASCII to EBCDIC gateway,
the characters of the representation are translated from ascii to
ebcdic. The message represented remains unchanged.
Ned> While all this is really good stuff, I really don't want to get
Ned> into it here for a couple of reasons.
Is there some other forum that you would prefer? My real interest is
the integration of pem and MIME.