As an operating system grows, it often incorporates the features that were previously delivered only by utilities. Before the rise of the Internet, this was the main way that remote UNIX machines were networked. It is no longer in wide use. Once the uuencoded file has been transferred it is uudecoded at the other end to transform it back to its original binary form. Uuencoding is not a form of cryptography or a security protocol.
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