Re: MIME vs. DIME vs. ...

While creating a "safe" string can be done at some cost, finding it
again when parsing the message is often the more problematic part.
Having to look at every single octet is painful, especially for
intermediaries who often have no reason to otherwise look at the data.

Henrik

>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).