Why do binary file attachment sizes increase by about 15-20% when sending a message?

Created Mar 29, 2003

John Zukowski

When included as an attachment, binary files are encoded to be 7-bit safe. This means that what used to be 8-bits per byte is now 7, hence the increase.

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