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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.admin,alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: v19INF7:  New MD4 based header to be used in c.s.m posts
Keywords: MD4 header
Message-ID: <24364371@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 9 May 91 10:22:35 GMT
References: <1991May9.015935.27885@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <1991May9.015935.27885@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield) writes:
>MD4 can be used to apply a fingerprint on an article posted to USENET.  

I have read RFC1186 and I don't understand how MD4 can survive migration
to EBCDIC or non-LF-delimited text formats (fixed-80, etc).  Shouldn't
something be done using an accepted minimum alphabet as the verification
domain?