Is it possible that there may be come character encoding/translation issues 
that would end up garbling the file as it passes from tinkertoyland to Big 
Iron?  

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Bri P
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:36 AM
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Subject: Re: File Transfer Issue

In essence, Base64 encoding.. Turning binary data into graphic ASCII. For some 
reason, in PGP circles particularly, they call it 'ASCII-Armored'.


Brian

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Steve Comstock
Sent: 25 February 2009 17:28
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Subject: Re: File Transfer Issue

Matt Dazzo wrote:
> I am transferring a certificate that is in ascii armored format ...


[snip]

Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't know, but I'd still like
to find out: what the heck is "ascii armored format"?

 
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