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Base64 is an encoding method that converts binary data into ASCII characters for secure and compatible transmission in text-based environments. This method was developed to allow binary data to be transmitted intact, especially in text-only systems such as e-mail messages, web pages and XML documents. Base64 converts 3 bytes (24 bits) of binary data into a 4-character ASCII string using 64 different ASCII characters representing 6-bit data blocks. In this way, binary data is converted to text fo