On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 01:35:49PM -0500, Thomas Polliard wrote:
> Im trying it now and just for the record, password was changed the moment I
> hit send ;) I had changed it to that prior to the test. What is special
> though about the base64 encoding thought it was just the password digested,
> is there something else in there?
Don't confuse an "encoding" with encryption or a cryptographic digest.
$ perl -e '
use MIME::Base64;
($x = decode_base64(shift)) =~ s/\0/\\000/g;
print $x, "\n";
' AHRob21hc0Bwb2xsaWFyZC5jb20AOWFodWdpdGU=
encodings are key-less and reversible, they just represent bit-strings
in a different form.
--
Viktor.
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