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[Douglas K. Fischer]

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John Fawcett wrote:

| Greg A. Woods wrote:
|
|> Stripping NUL bytes modifies the message and that's a _REALLY
|> BAD_ thing to do.  It is infinitely better to reject than to
|> arbitrarily modify the message in a destructive manner.
|
|
| Maybe I misunderstood earlier posts which indicated this was ok.

One area in which such modifications would be very detrimental would
be in encrypted/signed/hashed messages. Making such modifications to
the body would break these.

FWIW,

Doug
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