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Article #697Re: BASE64?
From: Terry Gray
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 16:00
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 16:00
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On Thu, 10 Feb 1994, Hong Song wrote: > > ..... received a BASE64 encoded plant list from the University of Hawaii > > > Could anyone tell what BASE64 code is? How to decode it? Base64 is an encoding scheme used in two Internet standards: Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). Its purpose is to allow data that is not 7bit-ascii to be sent safely through the sometimes hostile world of Internet email and connected gateways. It is more robust (and better defined) than some of the earlier alternatives, such as uuencode. Check the "comp.mail.mime" news group for an FAQ that lists available software for encoding and decoding Base64 (as well as mailers that integrate MIME support, and therefore B64 processing). -teg
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d8d0,363c3b294d997207,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8d0,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-02-19 08:00:04 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!att-in!att-out!pacbell.com!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sundance.llnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!pnl-oracle!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!news From: Terry Gray <gray@cac.washington.edu> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.mail-l Subject: Re: BASE64? Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 08:00:04 -0800 (PST) Organization: University of Washington Lines: 21 Message-ID: <Pine.3.90.9402190717.24990Z-0100000@shiva1.cac.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva1.cac.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <9402102315.AA48972@mobot.mobot.org>