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A comment on The Catch 22 of Base64: Attacker Dilemma from a Defender Point of View.

Re:The Catch 22 of Base64: Attacker Dilemma from a Defender ... by benchaney on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @01:58PM (#16969527)
I'm not really sure what the threat model is here. If the attacker can control what encoding scheme you use, surely you have much more serious problems than the possibility of wasting space.
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Re:The Catch 22 of Base64: Attacker Dilemma from a Defender ... by jessaustin on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @02:20PM (#16969783)
TFA is about attackers using Base64 encoding.
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