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 :Dhttps://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.
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.
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
> 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...
So technically it’s now possible to hide a payload in somewhat human-readable text, as long as it base64-decodes.
What do you mean hide a payload?
Base64 isn’t obfuscation or encryption.