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One of the things that people have against e-mail is it's reliance on base64. Then I see this protocol that just encodes content with base64. It baffles me. Am
by hawski 9y ago
One of the things that people have against e-mail is it's reliance on base64. Then I see this protocol that just encodes content with base64. It baffles me.
Am I missing something?
- foota 9y agoWhat do people have against base 64? Just the encoding inefficiency?
- jandrese 9y agoThat and you can't read the plain text without first running it through a decoder I think.
- rektide 9y agoMore generally - wrapping the actual content in an encoded envelope was a horrible awful design that was actively hostile to anyone interested in working with the protocol. What it grants is the ability to sign any content. Which is a pretty important friction point to get past. But I still really don't like it.