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Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding that uses 64 printable characters to represent each 6-bit segment of a sequence of byte values.
As for all binary-to-text encodings, Base64 encoding enables transmitting binary data on a communication channel that only supports text.
A binary-to-text encoding is a data encoding scheme that represents binary data as plain text.
Encoding binary data as text allows information that is not inherently stored as text to be processed by software that otherwise cannot process arbitrary binary data.
Generally, the binary data consists of a sequence of arbitrary 8-bit byte values and the text is restricted to the printable character codes of commonly-used character encodings such as ASCII.
The following example JWS Protected Header declares that the encoded object is a JSON Web Token [JWT] and the JWS Protected Header and the JWS Payload are secured using the HMAC SHA-256 [RFC2104] [SHS] algorithm: {"typ":"JWT", "alg":"HS256"} Encoding this JWS Protected Header as BASE64URL(UTF8(JWS Protected Header)) gives this value: eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLA0KICJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9 The UTF-8 representation of the following JSON object is used as the JWS Payload. (Note that the payload can be any content and need not be a representation of a JSON object.) {"iss":"joe", "exp":1300819380, "http://example.com/is_root":true} Encoding this JWS Payload as BASE64URL(JWS Payload) gives this value (with line breaks for display purposes only): eyJpc3MiOiJqb2UiLA0KICJleHAiOjEzMDA4MTkzODAsDQogImh0dHA6Ly9leGFt cGxlLmNvbS9pc19yb290Ijp0cnVlfQ Computing the HMAC of the JWS Signing Input ASCII(BASE64URL(UTF8(JWS Protected Header)) || '.' || BASE64URL(JWS Payload)) with the HMAC SHA-256 algorithm using the key specified in Appendix A.1 and base64url-encoding the result yields this BASE64URL(JWS Signature) value: dBjftJeZ4CVP-mB92K27uhbUJU1p1r_wW1gFWFOEjXk Concatenating these values in the order Header.
Research query: base64 binary to text encoding Base64 binary-to-text encoding · jobs: 2 · on-topic sources: 2 · review: Conflicted
Generally, the binary data consists of a sequence of arbitrary 8-bit byte values and the text is restricted to the printable character codes of commonly-used character encodings such as ASCII. — Binary-to-text encoding (wikipedia)
A binary-to-text encoding is a data encoding scheme that represents binary data as plain text. — Binary-to-text encoding (wikipedia)
As for all binary-to-text encodings, Base64 encoding enables transmitting binary data on a communication channel that only supports text. — Base64 (wikipedia)
The following example JWS Protected Header declares that the encoded object is a JSON Web Token [JWT] and the JWS Protected Header and the JWS Payload are secured using the HMAC SHA-256 [RFC2104] [SHS] algorithm: {"typ":"JWT", "alg":"HS256"} Encoding this JWS Protected Header as BASE64URL(UTF8(JWS Protected Header)) gives this value: eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLA0KICJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9 The UTF-8 representation of the following JSON object is used as the JWS Payload. (Note that the payload can be any content and need not be a representation of a JSON object.) {"iss":"joe", "exp":1300819380, "http://example.com/is_root":true} Encoding this JWS Payload as BASE64URL(JWS Payload) gives this value (with line breaks for display purposes only): eyJpc3MiOiJqb2UiLA0KICJleHAiOjEzMDA4MTkzODAsDQogImh0dHA6Ly9leGFt cGxlLmNvbS9pc19yb290Ijp0cnVlfQ Computing the HMAC of the JWS Signing Input ASCII(BASE64URL(UTF8(JWS Protected Header)) || '.' || BASE64URL(JWS Payload)) with the HMAC SHA-256 algorithm using the key specified in Appendix A.1 and base64url-encoding the result yields this BASE64URL(JWS Signature) value: dBjftJeZ4CVP-mB92K27uhbUJU1p1r_wW1gFWFOEjXk Concatenating these values in the order Header. — rfc:7515 (2015)
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Binary-to-text encoding (wikipedia)
A binary-to-text encoding is a data encoding scheme that represents binary data as plain text. (new this job) — source
Encoding binary data as text allows information that is not inherently stored as text to be processed by software that otherwise cannot process arbitrary binary data. (new this job) — source
Generally, the binary data consists of a sequence of arbitrary 8-bit byte values and the text is restricted to the printable character codes of commonly-used character encodings such as ASCII. (new this job) — source
Base64 (wikipedia)
Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding that uses 64 printable characters to represent each 6-bit segment of a sequence of byte values. — source
As for all binary-to-text encodings, Base64 encoding enables transmitting binary data on a communication channel that only supports text. — source
rfc:7515 (2015)
The following example JWS Protected Header declares that the encoded object is a JSON Web Token [JWT] and the JWS Protected Header and the JWS Payload are secured using the HMAC SHA-256 [RFC2104] [SHS] algorithm: {"typ":"JWT", "alg":"HS256"} Encoding this JWS Protected Header as BASE64URL(UTF8(JWS Protected Header)) gives this value: eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLA0KICJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9 The UTF-8 representation of the following JSON object is used as the JWS Payload. (Note that the payload can be any content and need not be a representation of a JSON object.) {"iss":"joe", "exp":1300819380, "http://example.com/is_root":true} Encoding this JWS Payload as BASE64URL(JWS Payload) gives this value (with line breaks for display purposes only): eyJpc3MiOiJqb2UiLA0KICJleHAiOjEzMDA4MTkzODAsDQogImh0dHA6Ly9leGFt cGxlLmNvbS9pc19yb290Ijp0cnVlfQ Computing the HMAC of the JWS Signing Input ASCII(BASE64URL(UTF8(JWS Protected Header)) || '.' || BASE64URL(JWS Payload)) with the HMAC SHA-256 algorithm using the key specified in Appendix A.1 and base64url-encoding the result yields this BASE64URL(JWS Signature) value: dBjftJeZ4CVP-mB92K27uhbUJU1p1r_wW1gFWFOEjXk Concatenating these values in the order Header. — source
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Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding that uses 64 printable characters to represent each 6-bit segment of a sequence of byte values.
Generally, the binary data consists of a sequence of arbitrary 8-bit byte values and the text is restricted to the printable character codes of commonly-used character encodings such as ASCII.
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