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Re: string encryption

From "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: string encryption
Date 2021-04-29 10:00 +0200
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On 2021-04-29 09:38, David Brown wrote:

>> It is amazing how things like Base64 and uuencoding are still alive when
>> teletypes and modems for which they made sense are long dead.
> 
> We still have email attachments, which is the prime use of these
> encodings.  (I don't remember using them with modems, but maybe others did.)

For the same reason: modems had command line interface.

Yes it is not only SMTP, FTP, HTTP. Even new protocols keep on 
pretending to use a command line interfaces, being conveniently ignorant 
of other ASCII control characters beyond CR, LF, they should have 
honored. But who cares?

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

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  Re: string encryption Kristjan Robam <he12457@hotmail.com> - 2021-04-28 08:39 -0700
  Re: string encryption David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-04-28 19:58 +0200
    Re: string encryption David Spencer <spencer@panix.com> - 2021-04-28 18:00 +0000
      Re: string encryption David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-04-28 20:47 +0200
      Re: string encryption Kristjan Robam <rob999999999@yahoo.com> - 2021-04-29 02:26 -0700
    Re: string encryption Kristjan Robam <ya12983@mail.com> - 2021-04-28 12:14 -0700
    Re: string encryption Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-04-28 14:33 -0700
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  Re: string encryption "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2021-04-28 21:55 +0200
    Re: string encryption Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-04-28 14:33 -0700
      Re: string encryption "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2021-04-29 08:06 +0200
        Re: string encryption David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-04-29 09:38 +0200
          Re: string encryption "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2021-04-29 10:00 +0200
          Re: string encryption Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-29 22:33 +0100
      Re: string encryption David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-04-29 09:37 +0200
        Re: string encryption Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-04-29 06:40 -0700
          Re: string encryption David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-04-29 17:01 +0200

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