--On Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:00 PM +0200 Pierangelo Masarati ando@sys-net.it wrote:
For security reasons, I guess.
I'd think for reasons of not wanting to lose data due to non-ascii characters (charset/locale settings...). This is for exchanging contents of the database.
And btw, this is not encryption but encoding.
damn'd! so "base64 -d" is not a password cracker?!?
I understand the desire for humor, and being tired of questions like this, but this really is the -software list, and clearly this person is quite confused. ;) I'm now afraid for people who do search the archives and think that it is supposed to be encrypted rather than encoded because of this response. :/
--Quanah
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