What does THAT do - Ep9 - Base64 Basics
Channel: Maarten Broekman
Date: 2021-08-23

In this video, I walk the viewer through how base64 encoding and decoding converts strings to and from and some of the interesting characteristics of base64 text that can help analysts 'read' base64 text without decoding it.

00:00 Introduction
00:53 What does base64 encoding do
02:37 Example encoding
03:26 Example decoding
03:49 Tricks for base64
05:57 More useful base64 encodings
08:33 Unknown text example