3 stories tagged encoding, newest first.
605 points by todsacerdoti | 176 comments
Blog post by Lars Ingebrigtsen explaining why stray equals signs appear in leaked email excerpts, tracing them to quoted-printable encoding mishandled during conversion.
323 points by jandeboevrie | 130 comments
A TIL blog post explaining how to recognize base64-encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys by their characteristic leading characters.
593 points by input_sh | 82 comments
An interactive explainer, written for a 37C3 workshop, teaching the anatomy of QR codes and how to decode them by hand using a cheat sheet.