I may be a bit pedantic, but please don't use "encode" when you mean "encrypt". These words describe two quite different concepts and guarantees. Exchanging the

I may be a bit pedantic, but please don't use "encode" when you mean "encrypt". These words describe two quite different concepts and guarantees. Exchanging them the other way around produces catastrophic results like "Of course we encrypt our passwords, we use the renowned base64".