An encoding method that converts binary data into ASCII text and vice versa and is one of the methods used by MIME. Base64 divides each three bytes of the original data into four 6-bit units, which it represents as four 7-bit ASCII characters. This typically increases the original file by about a third. See quoted printable encoding.
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