bugtraq - RE: base64

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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:20:46 -0500
From: "Alun Jones" <alun@...is.com>
To: <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: RE: base64

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bennett Todd [mailto:bet@...ul.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:30 AM
> 
> Do all this canonicalization before the message hits your
> attachment type policy enforcement and malware scanner, so they only
> have to deal with the common forms that everybody handles the same.

With the obvious disadvantage that we're all reduced to using the
lowest-common-subset of functionality.  Never mind inventing or supporting
new features, or adding international file naming support, in your new email
client, because the mail server will strip all of that out, anyway.  I don't
think that's an appropriate answer.

Alun.
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