Base64

In computer science, Base64 is a group of similar binary-to-text encoding schemes that represent binary data in an ASCII string format by translating it into a radix-64 representation.

The term Base64 originates from a specific MIME content transfer encoding.

See also

• 8BITMIME
• Ascii85 (also called Base85)
• Base16
• Base32
• Base36
• Base58
• Binary-to-text encoding for a comparison of various encoding algorithms
• Binary number
• MIME
• URL

External links

• Base64 @ Wikipedia