From: Bill Studenmund (wrstudennetbsd.org)
Date: Mon May 17 2004 - 21:25:52 CDT

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On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:21:29PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <20040518020041.GD3452bcd.geek.com.au>, Daniel Carosone writes:
>
> >On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 05:17:04PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >> Once concern I have with smime (and this could be a misunderstanding) is=
> >=20
> >> that it is MIME, after all, and as such makes things 7-bit clean, no? I=
> >=20
> >> like the tar file container idea for the simple reason it's 8-bit clean.
> >
> >8-bit data gets base64 encoded, if that's what you mean, yes - or you
> >do a detached signature and leave the original file alone.
> >
> Depends on what you're doing. MIME does define a binary
> representation, though you can't generallyuse it for email. Here's
> some text from RFC 2045:

That would work for distributions, as we will use binary ftp to distribute
them. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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