[31847] in bugtraq
Re: base64
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bennett Todd)
Fri Sep 26 16:05:46 2003
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:11:18 -0400
From: Bennett Todd <bet@rahul.net>
To: Alun Jones <alun@texis.com>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Message-ID: <20030926181118.GB6827@rahul.net>
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2003-09-25T16:20:46 Alun Jones:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bennett Todd [mailto:bet@rahul.net]=20
> > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:30 AM
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> With the obvious disadvantage that we're all reduced to using the
> lowest-common-subset of functionality.
Absolutely.
> 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.
It's certainly not the appropriate answer for all settings.
Outlaw people from receiving email on Windows, and we can do away
with all this sludge.
-Bennett
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