From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200107021909.PAA00080@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 (in)security
In-Reply-To: <20010702181031.EECB9199E1@mail.cse.psu.edu>
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Date: Mon,  2 Jul 2001 15:09:58 -0400
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In article <20010702181031.EECB9199E1@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>Obviously we should not set a fixed character size, like 256 bits,
>but migrate to a variable length encoding, where the first 16 bits
>describes the length of the character.

I'm not sure that 16 bits is sufficient.  You know, it's like,
restrictive and stuff.  Better make the length be 256 bits.

>HTH.  HAND.

PCMCIA.

	- Dan C.