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Also known as: Base-64
An encoding that represents binary data using 64 printable characters, four output characters for every three input bytes, adding about 33% to the size. Standard inside MIME email and web protocols, and occasionally used for small Usenet attachments, but its overhead made it impractical for large binaries. yEnc replaced it on binary groups because it adds only a fraction of the same bulk.
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