In the general usage case base64 is not even obfuscation, really (though it does make it non-human-readable... for most humans), just an encoding for dealing wi

In the general usage case base64 is not even obfuscation, really (though it does make it non-human-readable... for most humans), just an encoding for dealing with situations where you need to store or transmit 8-bit or multibyte character data into a system that may otherwise be incapable of dealing with it reliably.