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> To have some minimal form of obfuscation from prying eyes, the strings in the backdoor are compressed and encoded in Base64, or their hashes are used instead.
by mad_vill 6y ago
> To have some minimal form of obfuscation from prying eyes, the strings in the backdoor are compressed and encoded in Base64, or their hashes are used instead.
ah so base64 is valid encryption after all.
- yuribro 6y agoIt says encoded, not encrypted. base64 is an encoding. It also says obfuscation, which isn't encryption either. And finally, it talks about hashes (without even claiming cryptographic hash functions), and but it's not about the base64 strings...