Re: MIME vs. DIME vs. ...

Larry Masinter <[email protected]> writes:
> I think the issues are: footprint of code, reliability,
> consistency. MIME with content-length isn't MIME;
> MIME multipart is difficult to create 'reliably'
> (because of the difficulty of choosing separators that
> are guaranteed to not appear in the body),
It's not particularly difficult to create separators that
are guaranteed not to appear in the message body, simply use
a cryptographically secure PRNG to generate a suitably
large random number (160-bits should be plenty).

-Ekr

[0] I often see people argue that probabilistically unique
values aren't "guaranteed" to be unique. I don't find this
argument convincing. A probability of 2^-80 is good enough
for essentially any purpose.

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[Eric Rescorla                                   [email protected]]
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