It can be useful to encode data, such as application state or binary file, into a string that is compressed and safe to use in URL query string or hash, as well as in JSON. For gzip compression and ...

In today's web-driven world, the need to securely encode and decode data is paramount. Whether you're dealing with API keys, binary data, or simple strings, Base64 is a widely-used encoding scheme ...

Base64 encoding and decoding capabilities were added in java8 via the java.util.Base64 utility class. To encode any string, we can use the encodeToString() method of Encoder class which is an inner ...

What are the numbers? You can encode 9,999,999,999 in 5 bytes. If you want to store the number in human readable bytes, convert it to Base64 encoding or similar.

We are trying to hack the metadata to pass in a SHA256 hash which is a byte array. But we can't do that if the base library is assuming it is a utf-8 string. We can't convert a SHA256 hash byte array ...