6 points | by mfiguiere 13 hours ago ago
2 comments
> However, when decoding, we must handle errors and skip spaces.
This had me scratching my head. Why would a base64 decoder need to skip spaces? But indeed, MDN documents this behavior:
> Note that: The whitespace in the space is ignored.
JS never ceases to surprise. Also, check out that typo :D
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
So technically it’s now possible to hide a payload in somewhat human-readable text, as long as it base64-decodes.
> However, when decoding, we must handle errors and skip spaces.
This had me scratching my head. Why would a base64 decoder need to skip spaces? But indeed, MDN documents this behavior:
> Note that: The whitespace in the space is ignored.
JS never ceases to surprise. Also, check out that typo :D
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
So technically it’s now possible to hide a payload in somewhat human-readable text, as long as it base64-decodes.