Binary-to-text encoding
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A binary-to-text encoding is encoding of data in plain text.
Description
More precisely, it is an encoding of binary data in a sequence of characters.
These encodings are necessary for transmission of data when the channel does not allow binary data (such as email or NNTP) or is not 8-bit clean.
PGP documentation (RFC 4880) uses the term ASCII armor for binary-to-text encoding when referring to Radix-64.
See also
External links
- Binary-to-text encoding @ Wikipedia
