About the naughty naughts:
This is also the cause of many problems and the main cause of the ssl certificate hack:
"www.paypal.com\0filtyhacker.cr"
see ASN.1 and X509. PASCAL strings (with length before string) are for good reason part of many a specification... C strings are convienient, but many times declassified for real life work. Only because of that it is important the real specs should be adhered to. (If only because it means PASCAL and derivatives have a real and mayor contribution to real life in programming ;) )
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