created: 20221105114920520
modified: 20230206111552076
modifier: Octt
tags: $:/i18n:en
title: Base64:en

''Base64'' is a 8-bit-binary to text data encoding scheme.

Due to the format using a character set of 64 characters, representable by 6 bits, a minimal b64 block is ''24 bits'' large (lcm(8,6)), which is 3 binary bytes, or 4 b64 text characters.