![]() Your message, or for character set translation to corrupt something. inline encoding of the body of an email message), and uuencoded data was particularly vulnerable to corruption because at that time it was not uncommon for a mail gateway somewhere along the line to insert an unwanted newline somewhere within Keep in mind at that time, many people were using systems that did not have a C compiler (the C compiler was often sold as an expensive add-on if it was available at all, and this was before GCC was widely available) so acquiring and compiling their own base64 decoder was a significant effort.īut in certain contexts you didn't need a file name or mode (e.g. Also, uuencode had been around longer and was more established, which meant that many people had a uudecode program available but they did not have a base64 decoder. ![]() ![]() Some of the reasons base64 was disliked was because uuencode stored the original file name and file mode of the encoded data.
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