Did you know?

• Base64 is not an encryption!
• Base64 is just a binary to text encoding!
• Base64 can be used for image encoding and URL encoding
• Base64 encoded data can be transferred over media that are designed to deal with ASCII
• Base64 encoded can also be decoded to plain ASCII text
• Base64 also has URL safe encoding!
• Base64 can also be used for email attachments!
• Base64 encoding happens by converting ascii to binary i.e 8 bits to group of 6 bits!
• Base64 adds = sign for padding!