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        RFC 3548

        Title:      The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings
        Author(s):  S. Josefsson, Ed.
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       July 2003
        Mailbox:    simon@josefsson.org
        Pages:      13
        Characters: 26363
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:  None

        I-D Tag:    draft-josefsson-base-encoding-04.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3548.txt


This document describes the commonly used base 64, base 32, and base

16 encoding schemes.  
It also discusses the use of line-feeds in
encoded data, use of padding in encoded data, use of non-alphabet
characters in encoded data, and use of different encoding alphabets.

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