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| From | "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> |
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| Subject | Re: string encryption |
| Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2021 10:00:47 +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 <rob999999999@yahoo.com> - 2021-04-29 02:26 -0700
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Re: string encryption Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-04-28 14:33 -0700
Re: string encryption Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-04-28 14:39 -0700
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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