jeramyRR
Problems properly decoding a base64 encoded string
I am trying to decode an Azure Storage Key that’s supposedly base64 encoded, but I’m getting all kinds of wonkey characters. Example:
Base.decode64! "ZG2p8/z2ATu8NVLBXmeFtkX9chpkbk2EK9fH4qVKxvC//mSlIdsqzvZpNa4k7tPPR86RmiGkdi0BLwAEtPbkXA==" |> String.codepoints
Results in:
[
"d",
"m",
<<169>>,
<<243>>,
<<252>>,
<<246>>,
<<1>>,
";",
<<188>>,
"5",
"R",
<<193>>,
"^",
"g",
<<133>>,
<<182>>,
"E",
<<253>>,
"r",
<<26>>,
"d",
"n",
"M",
<<132>>,
"+",
<<215>>,
<<199>>,
<<226>>,
<<165>>,
"J",
<<198>>,
<<240>>,
<<191>>,
<<254>>,
"d",
<<165>>,
"!",
<<219>>,
"*",
<<206>>,
<<246>>,
"i",
"5",
<<174>>,
"$",
<<238>>,
<<211>>,
<<207>>,
"G",
"Α",
...
]
This definitely isn’t correct, or I’m not thinking about something correctly here. Is there something I need to do special for utf8 encoded strings?
Thanks for the help,
Jeramy
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jeramyRR
We can close this thread. I got it figured out. There was nothing wrong with the key. There was however a mistake in my spelling.
massimo
It’s correct
the decoded string contains those characters
echo "ZG2p8/z2ATu8NVLBXmeFtkX9chpkbk2EK9fH4qVKxvC//mSlIdsqzvZpNa4k7tPPR86RmiGkdi0BLwAEtPbkXA==" | base64 -D -i - | hexdump -c
0000000 d m � � � � 001 ; � 5 R � ^ g 205 �
0000010 E � r 032 d n M 204 + � � � � J � �
0000020 � � d � ! � * � � i 5 � $ � � �
0000030 G � 221 232 ! � v - 001 / \0 004 � � � \
0000040
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massimo
base64decode.org is simply removing the non printable characters.
try on this one and see the difference https://codebeautify.org/base64-decode
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