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[bambi]

Hi, I ran into this code and was asked to identify it. But I don't know what kind of code it is. Could someone please help me out?

RX0cmEgZ29kIGVnWIGR1IGh5za2FwIG9tIGR1IGhhciBmw7ZybcOlZ2FuIGF0dCB0eWRhGRl bm5hIGtvZC4IGR1IGhgQXZzbHYSBkaWIGR1IGh4gYW5zw7ZW4gbWVkIGF0dCIGR1IGhBhbmdlICJKYWcgZsO2 cnN0bQgbIGR1IGhWVZGVsYW5kZXQiLg==

Edited by bambi, 13 April 2011 - 07:17 AM.

[WingedPanther]

It looks a lot like a mime-encoded string, which is probably a GPG key, or somesuch. Without a context, it could really be most anything.

[bambi]

I looked up MIME and you're right, it turned out to be Base64, and I got the code converted to text. Thanks for the help!

[Alexander]

Base64 is an ASCII based encoding of which can be used to represent binary content, or textual content of another character set without issue of it being transformed or misrepresented during transportation. In this case the encoding is very easily identifiable, as there are following "=" or "=="'s. These are there, due to the fact that Base64 encodes in three bytes at a time, therefor padding is used.