[38000] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EMAIL != FTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitch Halmu)
Sat May 26 15:55:00 2001
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 15:46:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mitch Halmu <mitch@netside.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sat, 26 May 2001 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2001 10:48:48 EDT, Mitch Halmu said:
>
> There's *NO* change in what can be transferred. The ONLY difference is you
> can avoid converting it to base64 at the one end and then decoding it at
> the other end. If you haven't noticed, viruses, trojans, and worms are being
> transmitted just as were compiled, via the *current* infrastructure.
Hmmm, I'm looking at an encoded snowhite message body right now. midgets.scr
encoded in base64, and transmitted as an attachment. Can provide you a
copy in private if you want to take it apart (but not on a PC, or you'll
get a *huge* surprise ;)
All others in that family that I looked at were also encoded. Did anyone
get a raw binary via regular email?
--Mitch
NetSide
