Luc GMail: > I was wondering if someone was going to decode them. > No, they are not real. I made those up for this message only and I actually > passed them through base64 before pasting. > Thank you for the warning. > Now I wonder what is the point of requiring b64 hashes when they can be > decoded so easily...
Because of (SMTP command) syntax limitations. The same reason why
web URLs, HTTP headers, and JSON blobs contain base64-encoded content.
Wietse
