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Title sounds like click bait :) . There is nothing wrong with base64 strings. The base64 command, on the other hand, will line-split its output if it’s very lon
by loloquwowndueo 3y ago
Title sounds like click bait :) . There is nothing wrong with base64 strings. The base64 command, on the other hand, will line-split its output if it’s very long. Using the -w0 param as the article discovered and shared is the way to go - but this is dependent on the specific b64 tooling that was used.
- MatthiasPortzel 3y agoI’ve never encountered this issue because macOS/BSD `base64` doesn’t have this default. So I agree, a bad title for an issue with one tool.
- rob74 3y agoYeah, the title should be "Beware of strings encoded with base64" (as in the specific utility, not the general encoding).
- taftster 3y agoBeware of long strings encoded with certain base64 tools.