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Abandon e-mail!
Kelly Martin, 2006-05-30

Kelly Martin takes a step back from e-mail's unstoppable phishing-virus-spam epidemic and imagines a world where secure e-mail could be the next big killer app.

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Re: Abandon e-mail! 2006-05-31
Anonymous
From my understanding the base-64 encoding used in modern email is a dirty hack to make RFC-821 actually support anything more than ASCII text. Unfortunately that makes the encoded output only about 74% space efficient on average. Is it not time we revisited the whole encoding scheme?
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