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Last updated 4 years ago

Base64

encoding is generally used to transmit binary data over a mechanism that only allows ASCII text.

MD5

. SHA-1 would be better suited for this task.

SHA1 / SHA-256

Base 64
MD5 is not considered a strong encryption mechanism
  • Base64
  • MD5
  • SHA1 / SHA-256
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