CODEWITHSUNDEEP
encodingbase64decodemimegeocaching
Chris K
Chris K

Reputation: 23

Determining proper decoding technique

I am trying to figure out how to decode this string as part of a geocaching puzzle:

4vU8XHh8AQobJTyGY0dluvecMvMVHbf0JLfZTB8komg=

I thought it might be MIME encoded but I cannot find a decoder that gives me any useful information.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 98

Answers (1)

tripleee
tripleee

Reputation: 189387

The data is quite clearly base64 (the restricted character repertoire could otherwise be pretty much anything, but the final = is not used elsewhere in base64 which is IMHO a giveaway; it is used to pad the end of the string so that it is always a multiple of four characters long) but decoding it doesn't reveal anything useful at least to me.

bash-3.2@osx-yosemite$ base64 -D <<<'4vU8XHh8AQobJTyGY0dluvecMvMVHbf0JLfZTB8komg=' |
> xxd
0000000: e2f5 3c5c 787c 010a 1b25 3c86 6347 65ba  ..<\x|...%<.cGe.
0000010: f79c 32f3 151d b7f4 24b7 d94c 1f24 a268  ..2.....$..L.$.h

Upvotes: 0

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