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What kind of binary-to-text encoding is this?

Do you know this binary-to-text encoding?:

qEjv4crWI3owrhkxtNBAuQTyQqP0OQmoJfYH4g3BrJFipxAWefnracua0b5kiio4gq2sSdE82BhI308CRIA/TA==

Superficially it looks like Base64, it even uses a == padding at the end of the string. nonetheless, it is using a '\' character too. I used to believe it was escaping the '/' character, but no, it doesn't.

Any ideas?

Solution

  • It's a Base64 encoded value. '/' and '+' are part of the base64 alphabet. A-Za-z0-9 only gets you 62 characters.