adzm 28 minutes ago

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/7208125 v8 changed yesterday to avoid the temp buffer which will likely double the base64 decode speed.

Looks like this was brought up there as a result of this article too, which is neat! And helpful since I was just messing with a node script that is heavily decoding base64

danhau 7 days ago

> However, when decoding, we must handle errors and skip spaces.

This had me scratching my head. Why would a base64 decoder need to skip spaces? But indeed, MDN documents this behavior:

> Note that: The whitespace in the space is ignored.

JS never ceases to surprise. Also, check out that typo :D

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

  • cluckindan 6 days ago

    So technically it’s now possible to hide a payload in somewhat human-readable text, as long as it base64-decodes.

    • moomoo11 5 minutes ago

      What do you mean hide a payload?

      Base64 isn’t obfuscation or encryption.