At 07:34 PM 10/10/2002 -0400, Tex Texin wrote: >Mark, >that's good to know. I never worked with Apple and so have no Apple doc >in my collection. > >However, the W0e below is a violation of the encoding and is a security >risk. I think the algorithm calls for the shortest string, so people >can't sneak in extra nulls- W0e W00e, etc.
That last one would be W0(2)e. The first is optionally W0(1)e. The (deprecated) part of the pattern was designed by the same folks who add ~20% bandwidth (forget the exact number) to all mime email in order to get it through 7 bit smtp. Barry
