Bron Gondwana wrote in
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 |Just out of interest[.]
 |[.]This is the resulting message - which still[.]

.. and it is not only the algorithm alone, where my numbers
compared a plain and simple self-contained 45 KB (x86_64 compiled)
string suffix sort algorithm to a fully-fledged analyzing diff(1)
implementation that is actively maintained and developed for 37
years by world-wide known and respected programmers among which
are teaching professors of universities which collect noble and
other prizes at numbers that almost extend my own counting
capabilites.  You will not get the same numbers with this/that
header/body line memory comparison logic.

No, it think it is also worthwhile mentioning that this approach
leaves programmers alone with "message state machine transition"
detection.  Whereas the ACDC approach loudly announces any
detected state change as part of the flag state machine all along
the path; And makes this thus a very active part of message
verification and for example collection of RFC 5863
"organizational trust".

With this approach MUAs but also DKIM software has to collect all
the necessary data over and over again, by checking it all,
looking for presence of diff headers, etc; with ACDC (letting
aside draft misses and bugs) you look at the flags of the latest
signature, and are (possibly) done with it.

Yes, this is doable.  (Almost) Anything is doable.  But is this
a step into the right direction, does it make things easier for
software, .. or is it even getting more complicated, over, and
over, and over again.  For ACDC a MUA that opens a DKIM verified
message can simply trust the flags.  And that's all.
 
Out of interest: .. you could retry your test with the word
"Dankeschön" (ö=U+00F6), which is, well, the actual German word to
use.  From guessing i would think your approach then already
becomes noisy (you leave the 7-bit clean world), whereas (AC)DC
only spits out some more base64 bytes.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
|
|During summer's humble, here's David Leonard's grumble
|
|The black bear,          The black bear,
|blithely holds his own   holds himself at leisure
|beating it, up and down  tossing over his ups and downs with pleasure
|
|Farewell, dear collar bear

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