Repair Base64

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Quite often, users cannot decode Base64, because they got a malformed or invalid string. For example, this can happen if the source outputs an unexpected Base64 standard, the user copied unnecessary data, or something damaged the Base64 value. As a rule, such strings cannot be decoded without additional processing or human intervention, and because of this some inexperienced users mistakenly think that these strings are not decodable. Therefore, to help you decoding the undecodable, I developed a “repair tool” powered by some kind of magic, which is able to fix malformed Base64 and even inform you about detected errors. Of course, don’t wait for miracle, but don’t be surprised if it happens.

Please note that the repair tool may return many false positives and you should manually tidy up the results. If you get some weird results, please don’t judge me harshly. This tool can repair hundreds formats of poorly formatted Base64 values and in some cases it’s necessary to sacrifice accuracy in order to achieve good results. If you got wrong results, please send me your string and I’ll try to improve this tool.

Comments (94)

I hope you enjoy this discussion. In any case, I ask you to join it.

Jim, 25 april 2019 at 08:51 #

I did not notice a backslash and it drove me crazy while trying to insert a data URL. Your tool really saved my day :)

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Youbze, 20 june 2019 at 11:52 #

Hi !

That's about 0a2a-67c5-7a30-a153-b88f-81ac-8898-b766

Got this one from a hidden value in a website, doesn't look like text, and it's IMO too short to be audio or video

Maybe just used for binary validation of some sort...

If you have an idea... :)

BTW excellent work here :D

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- Administrator, 20 june 2019 at 13:29 #↑
  
  Hi! Your string is a valid Base64 value (except the backslash), so it's almost impossible to tell what the data is. Well, at least, it is not a known popular binary format. I guess it may be a result of RSA encryption using a 512 bit key, but in fact it could be anything.
  
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Mlne, 23 july 2019 at 02:45 #

Hi I have a bunch of saved files in my Android & am unable to figure out a few of them.

Thanks for your help

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- Administrator, 24 july 2019 at 06:26 #↑
  
  Hello. It seems the submitted file is a Windows executable (exe).
  
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EDUARD, 10 august 2019 at 07:53 #

hello Eduard here again,..... Im sorry I forgot the Error ID: 379c-c7ff-f4fd-36d8-b158-ecb0-b301-3238

how do enter the base64 code into a html page do i use a <html> tag then base64 uri like this <src="data:text/html;base64,PCFkb2N0eXBlIGh0bWw+D.........end it with" /> </html> or how ??? please advise ... thank you in advance for the prompt reply!!! Ed

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- Administrator, 10 august 2019 at 12:10 #↑
  
  Hello Eduard,
  You need a valid opening tag that supports HTML embedding (src is just an attribute). So, to embed a Base64 encoded HTML into a web page you can use iframe, embed, or object.
  
  For example, in your case, the code should look something like this:
  <iframe src="data:text/html;base64,PCFkb2N0e..."></iframe>
  
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Eduard, 12 august 2019 at 12:11 #

Please one more question ,... Ive been having to base64 all my media jpgs when sending phpmail from my server or the pictures dont get sent.

What I wanted to accomplish is to base64 the whole completed html phpmail page and send it all as base64 .. is that possible with some other type of tag the <iframe> tag doesent seem to work... mail servers dont seem to see the <iframe> tag just like the CSS must be sent inline within the html for it to work.. please be so kind to advise... thank you in advance for you expert reply!!

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- Administrator, 12 august 2019 at 17:32 #↑
  
  I do not think that mail services will support such messages (they will strip invalid content and/or mark messages as spam). Therefore, I recommend you to send HTML messages in the usual way (for example, using "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64").
  
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raceanud, 13 august 2019 at 17:06 #

Hello! ID: 360d-5afa-a8af-096c-44dc-2edb-2e0e-8018

The text i recieved it is from an application in c#.When i get this text which i think it is base64 and i try to create a pdf file. the file it is created but it is shows a white page.

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- Administrator, 13 august 2019 at 18:04 #↑
  
  Hello,
  Your string is not a Base64 value. It is just a binary source of your PDF file.
  
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JasonMazzole, 18 september 2019 at 21:59 #

It was in my Google Drive

36d6-c71f-0d93-8206-a73c-768a-dc2d-25db

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- Administrator, 19 september 2019 at 02:49 #↑
  
  It is an SVG image that draws a white checkmark. If you want to preview it, use the Base64 to image decoder. Please note that you must copy-paste the valid Base64 string extracted by the repair tool. Also, you have to click the "Toggle Background Color" while previewing the image.
  
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Sarraf, 30 september 2019 at 13:59 #

Hi this is about 227f-db23-6b41-37f2-90ca-e7d9-e3b4-2b48

I got this one from a hidden part of a website.

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- Administrator, 30 september 2019 at 18:49 #↑
  
  Hi! Your string is a data URI that contains a valid Base64 value. It’s hard to say what it is used for (especially that it should be used as a PNG, but it definitely isn’t an image).
  
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base64, 4 october 2019 at 07:29 #

Thank you for this page

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Saucy, 18 october 2019 at 11:26 #

I’m trying to figure out wat this is can you please help me it is important

1287-3a17-3c38-112e-6c7a-ddaf-863d-9c00

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- Administrator, 18 october 2019 at 14:53 #↑
  
  Hi! Most likely it is an Excel formula.
  
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Zachary, 22 october 2019 at 02:10 #

f480-59bc-e9c2-78e3-fa89-3fc1-cb4c-b8ba

This is my undecodable ID^, even with the repair tool it did not work. It was received from a weird header nikto found on a webpage.

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- Administrator, 22 october 2019 at 05:56 #↑
  
  Hi! There are four different Base64 values and the repair tool detects them all. The problem is that all values store some unknown binary data. I do not know what they are used for, but I believe that this is something related to hashing or encryption functions. Maybe the name of the header indicates something?
  
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Mike, 24 october 2019 at 01:22 #

Hey, you're a saint for this site.

I have the error ID: 6da3-f4cd-b1a3-8653-101c-2582-7a63-c344

I'm totally clueless, so would help getting an audio file from this! All best.

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- Administrator, 24 october 2019 at 20:48 #↑
  
  Hello Mike,
  You have to extract the full data URI from your HTML file (it is included between two quotation marks src="..."). Then you can obtain the audio file using the Base64 to Audio decoder.
  
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ChristinaTaylor, 4 november 2019 at 16:39 #

I'm very grateful for the help! I know nothing about this and I am still getting things done!
: 0a78-5b9c-6c7d-8dc2-9dd2-835d-0a11-2a3a My last phone and new one did content transfer
Thanks so much

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- Administrator, 16 november 2019 at 01:41 #↑
  
  Hello Christina!
  I'm sorry for delay. Unfortunately, your string is neither a Base64 string nor any data format known to me. I recommend asking users on specialized smartphone forums and tell them some basic info about the file (name, size, location).
  
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hadi, 13 november 2019 at 23:31 #

my id:

b712-dd3a-fe6b-a277-f793-722f-d19a-a7f3

thank you

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- Administrator, 16 november 2019 at 01:49 #↑
  
  Hello,
  Your string is part of an HTML page that contains several audio files and images embedded via data URI. The Repair Tool is able to extract all valid Base64 strings and this is why I'm confused because of your comment. Could you explain please what the problem is?
  
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  - Had, 19 november 2019 at 15:53 #↑
    
    The issue is this is a big code that includes other than these files, it includes a java code that runs a program, this is what I am not able to decode
    
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Jess, 17 november 2019 at 06:28 #

From a Instagram account someone made under my name

[UPDATED: 17 november 2019 at 06:31]
Sorry I forgot "376a-5491-5e8e-3166-a8e0-03f8-26f2-0537"

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- Administrator, 17 november 2019 at 12:45 #↑
  
  As the Repair Tool says, your string is a SVG image. Well, it misses the open tag, but by adding it you can find found out that the image represents the Instagram logo.
  
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  - Jess, 17 november 2019 at 13:22 #↑
    
    Wow i wasn't expecting a response at allll ! I soo appreciate you! I should have sent you a different part of the page. Im trying to figure out a email in the source code of the url to see if I could find out who hacked my instagram, considering customer service wont do shit lol thank you for responding though,
    
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    - Administrator, 17 november 2019 at 13:31 #↑
      
      I'm happy I made your day a little bit more better :)
      
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Vicky, 29 november 2019 at 21:02 #

Please help me to decode this file and I want to download the video. This is a porn video. And I want to download it.

Id: 5097-2caa-af2b-54a5-7932-3753-9149-c761

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- Administrator, 29 november 2019 at 23:53 #↑
  
  You can decode Base64 to video using this decoder.
  
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combatmonk, 1 december 2019 at 14:13 #

a9a6-a35f-9b28-0777-b7a4-e758-0df9-2dff

I have a series of JSON files that I am getting from an API. They use this format and I want to know why it has the \, the carriage return and padding issues. Or most importantly how I can include a script to repair them for my project. I will have anywhere from 0-n items which I will iterate through, transform and display as a modal with text or something. Thanks for your help and generosity!

CM

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- combatmonk, 1 december 2019 at 14:26 #↑
  
  Sorry for the silly question, but it appears that this is just a "\n" newline character that I can write a function to remove. Do you happen to know if this is a convention when base64 encoding a jpg?
  
  Thanks Again!
  
  CM
  
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  - Administrator, 1 december 2019 at 16:27 #↑
    
    Hi! Typically, a Base64 string depends on the Base64 standard, not the input (i.e., the JPG file will return the same characters set as the TXT file). In your case, it complies with RFC 2045 (that is, the output is splitted into fixed 76 line-length). So, newlines are mandatory and you should be able to decode the Base64 string without any problems. However, something is wrong here, because your string doesn't contains "real newlines" (it contains a backslash followed by the letter "n"). Since you are extracting Base64 from JSON, I suppose the problem is that you forgot to decode JSON before extracting Base64 (the secret is that when decoding JSON the "\n" will be converted to a proper newline).
    
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Savan, 6 december 2019 at 12:02 #

Hello,

its about 3941-c524-8765-3459-0127-599c-40bc-b617

i have found this in a website and couldn't get rid of it,

really appreciate your efforts for people,

i will be very thankful to you if you could help me to decode it.

Thanks

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- Administrator, 27 december 2019 at 14:28 #↑
  
  Hello Savan,
  Sorry for delay. Also, I' sorry for bad news, but your string is not Base64 encoded.
  
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christy, 23 december 2019 at 06:10 #

id: 31cb-afbc-ed23-93e1-54fa-3033-6ee4-e367

thank you for your assistance!

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Zaxx, 23 december 2019 at 14:14 #

Hello sir ..ID 42d7-9d22-c143-ff32-d306-7762-5d87-817b can u please help me to decode this base64 script..TQ

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- Administrator, 27 december 2019 at 14:33 #↑
  
  Hello,
  Your string is a .woff font file (Web Open Font Format). You can decode your Base64 string the Base64 to File decoder.
  
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Abhishek_Gangwar, 27 december 2019 at 12:18 #

c091-dd08-a999-6a98-1c1a-2ec7-f247-40e2 please solve

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- Administrator, 27 december 2019 at 14:41 #↑
  
  Hello,
  Your Base64 string is a corrupted PNG image. I'm sorry, but I don't think you can repair it.
  
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Mike, 29 december 2019 at 07:09 #

I don't know where this came from or what it is. Named as an RSI receipt but don't know RSI & it has 29 pages of this script. I like your dedication to helping those in need. I appreciate any help you can provide to me.Thnx

boundary_1238_451212eb-68fa-4102-8bed-4bad29aa1982 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Invoice RSI125851466.pdf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 JVBERi0xLjMKJSBJbnZvaWNlIFJTSTEyNTg1MTQ2NiAtIFJlcG9ydAolIEdlbmVyYXRlZCBi ... LixkK0lGOmkrUmdObytcM2MhK2VeKCkrbzxIMiwjb2g9LC1OM0gsNzVZVCxBJjBiLEprXHAs

Sorry I'm a tech neanderthal. This is page 1 of 29. I tried to send the file but it won't let me or I be an idiot.

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- Administrator, 29 december 2019 at 10:47 #↑
  
  Hello Mike,
  It seems to be an email attachment that contains a PDF file. It cannot be decoded properly, because you provided only first bytes of your Base64 string. However, if you do not know where it comes from, I highly recommend not trying to open it, because it may be a phishing message or even worse, it may contain security exploits.
  
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mohamed, 2 january 2020 at 23:10 #

hi

please help me with the code 5b48-752d-fd82-de4d-a1d3-287c-e394-0ddb

it wordpress functions file

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- Administrator, 2 january 2020 at 23:53 #↑
  
  Hello,
  Your submission is a valid Base64 string. Unfortunately, it contains data unknown to me. Perhaps, it may contain the result of a cryptographic function. Therefore, to decrypt it, you need to know the passphrase and algorithm.
  
  In any case, if this file is from an unknown source, I strongly do not recommend running or including it in PHP, because it may be a backdoor.
  
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  - mohamed, 3 january 2020 at 00:19 #↑
    
    thanks for replying
    
    i appreciate it.
    
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kunde91, 3 january 2020 at 20:19 #

Hello ..ID 72b9-aabc-0d8a-bd5a-b97c-ad8e-e130-9c20

mfg

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- Administrator, 20 january 2020 at 15:51 #↑
  
  Hello. Sorry for being late. Unfortunately, your string cannot be decoded because it is saved in wrong charset encoding.
  
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srikanth, 8 january 2020 at 18:04 #

Hello sir,

I have a base64 encoded binary format zip file which I would like to unzip and download please could you help.iam pasting bit of the file due to limitations.

file

PK Q 'P;hB«ò ã% $ CNMD008636024_79763540_1_1_MF118.xmlÂ]ð¹î%~þ ÀàÒó··Ð È êZÜ ´uÄò¤O ¾>¬ `K I5À~2IVm·bd2¶"O .Ñ[ø «ZóóóXÎè?èOð?}¼ Ç×_|?ØÁèÀºÀÀ _È_À°/Ð È ¨ì/~¬Ä_àØ qÈ OàÁ¤Øs°~}¦ ÀOÀç²ÄÄ?ø ST >À²?°ÄÁixkÈ~ ÀÐ¨o~ ¸o

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Jamie, 19 january 2020 at 14:33 #

I found this and cant seem to see what it is, only my 21 son uses my account sometimes I just need to see or know what it is please. And thank you.

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molly, 20 january 2020 at 19:16 #

5540-c429-54e5-d52b-19c4-ffe5-70b0-45e6

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DavidAArteaga, 27 january 2020 at 02:36 #

It works like a charm ?: d0d9-d9e5-53c6-6191-16b0-139d-e9e1-ac3e, found the mal. ali. On an A.P.I. site. Probably got there through embedding. Everyone who encounter these probably have it attached to their profile and leave a piece of it behind while crawling the web. But I've only been doing independent studying, Without any.. body around that know a whole lot about it. If Im wrong I'd like to know.

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Rob, 13 february 2020 at 21:25 #

Going through hidden files trying to diagnose if there is hidden redirection

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twyla, 22 february 2020 at 23:28 #

Thanks so very much

[UPDATED: 22 february 2020 at 23:48]
Great web site

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pasupathi, 26 february 2020 at 12:31 #

88a0-7361-5cee-fad5-8204-8552-d6cb-1fd6 thank you after checked repaired id i will get back you

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- Administrator, 26 february 2020 at 14:18 #↑
  
  The Repair Tool is able to normalize your string. So, copy the repaired string and decode it using the Base64 to Image decoder.
  
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itay, 26 february 2020 at 15:25 #

Just wanted to say that you saved me after i was about to bash my head against the wall, thanks mate

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ashah, 6 march 2020 at 09:35 #

ID: f683-c7bb-d1a8-301c-2e61-f58e-04ef-ce94

Decode fails with
Caused by: com.rsa.jsafe.JSAFE_PaddingException: Could not perform unpadding: invalid pad byte. at com.rsa.cryptoj.p.hl.a(Unknown Source) ~[jsafe-4.0.jar:4.0]

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- Administrator, 7 march 2020 at 00:03 #↑
  
  Your Base64 string contains some invalid characters. So, just remove {CBC} to fix it.
  
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pancake888, 15 march 2020 at 13:38 #

I actually got the string from a flash game and trying to figure out what it is saying fully, if that does make sense

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- pancake888, 15 march 2020 at 13:39 #↑
  
  i forgot to add 548f-f903-543c-a4ce-341c-1219-dd96-0769
  
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Veizx, 19 march 2020 at 16:04 #

f088-755d-9482-eaf4-d06b-07d8-3117-7e91

Thanks your for your work :)

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- Veizx, 19 march 2020 at 16:13 #↑
  
  Forgot to say that i want to encode a PDF file to send it via post with php, when converting the b64 to pdf it gets corrupted.
  
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Chris, 21 march 2020 at 16:33 #

Greate!!! your tool is working fine for me, i tested a bad generate code base64 for a database image that save, but i really need to implement on my software solution made it on php and can't do it trought the code !!!!!!

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- Chris, 21 march 2020 at 16:52 #↑
  
  I forget to say that the error that I get is • Fixed incorrect padding. so I try to implement your solution apliying strtr($data, '-_', '+/') and strtr($b64, '+/', '-_') but when I comparing on text editor the bad value whit the good one, I just find that at the end exist one more "i" on the bad value, please can you help me to find a good solution. thanksss!!
  
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  - Chris, 23 march 2020 at 21:44 #↑
    
    No worries!!! Finally I fixed, the error was the value has incorrect extra data and dont have "=" character, the extra "i" character has been assumed as padding, so, just I taked the base64 value and I divided for 8 and test if was multiple of 8 and finally rest the residue for fix the value size, thanks for you information your page was so usefull for find my solution, bye!!!
    
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Jessica, 27 march 2020 at 22:45 #

I cant decode this it's saying it's a text 5aa8-ed40-0a7f-64ec-9493-15d7-647c-d439 help me please thanks

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- Administrator, 20 april 2020 at 12:37 #↑
  
  Hey Jessica! Your string is a JSON that contains info about some currencies and precious metals.
  
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Syed, 29 march 2020 at 01:21 #

9134-df7d-3d40-fe45-875b-b3c0-def7-5853

cannot figure out what format it is if this is not the right one

thanks

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- Administrator, 20 april 2020 at 12:35 #↑
  
  Hey Syed! That's some binary data and I don't know what kind of data it is.
  
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Felix, 6 april 2020 at 11:06 #

ID: b413-bfa3-f53f-ed77-be7c-b314-664a-83fe

Thx!

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- Administrator, 20 april 2020 at 12:30 #↑
  
  Hello Felix! This is a SVG image. To view it, just copy-paste it into your browser address bar and press Enter ;)
  
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Thaddeus, 10 april 2020 at 18:29 #

Hello,

ID: ``754d-334b-2af8-bc58-0621-a76b-663d-ee17``

I created an LSTM trained on base64 from preselected images to write new base64 strings, curious if you can give me any insight on what errors are present and what sort of feedback you can give me to adjust the learning model to accurately recreate base64.

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- Administrator, 20 april 2020 at 12:29 #↑
  
  Hey Thaddeus! You cannot concatenate Base64 values like this (just by joining multiple Base64 values). You must concatenate binary data first and only after that you should encode the result to Base64.
  
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Bobby, 13 april 2020 at 05:12 #

a4c7-9384-6cc5-3bc6-14a9-966c-2cb2-64a3
Hello there..I found this base 64 code in the phone, my partner gave to me. Any info would be much appreciated.
Thank you
Bobby

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- Administrator, 20 april 2020 at 12:24 #↑
  
  Hello Bobby! This is just a regular HTML page that have some background images included via Data URI.
  
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Much, 17 april 2020 at 18:43 #

a833-60b0-d0f0-0a01-cb0b-bdfe-8a5b-c4bf
please help me decode this, am on a hacker challenge with my friends. i would also love it if you describe how you decoded it.

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- Administrator, 20 april 2020 at 12:21 #↑
  
  Your string is not a Base64 value. Perhaps you should play with its encoding and ASCII table.
  
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Qwertyuiop, 20 april 2020 at 18:31 #

i am a user of tcrf, and i need help doing this. I s u c k at BaseX, and i tried to convert these two zip files from base64, but WinRAR says "! C:\Users\korbi\Downloads\application.zip: Checksum error in C:\Users\korbi\Downloads\application\NO$GMB.EXE. The file is corrupt
! C:\Users\korbi\Downloads\application.zip: The archive is corrupt
"
the intirety of the code is fragmented, but its in https://tcrf.net/MTV_Sports:_T.J._Lavin%27s_Ultimate_BMX_(Game_Boy_Color)

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Lybdetderrt, 24 april 2020 at 08:52 #

I am clueless when it comes to opening files. I have been trying everything to open these hidden files my husband left on my phone.

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AlJones, 30 april 2020 at 21:51 #

Reference code: ‘807d-6efd-ce9a-d723-5f82-02ea-f520-35e2’
Found in my sent folder and can’t decipher it. Please help.

Thanks,
Al Jones

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- Administrator, 1 may 2020 at 14:18 #↑
  
  Perhaps it is supposed to be a JPEG image, but many characters were discarded since it was sent as plain text.
  
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Kunj, 1 may 2020 at 14:42 #

3c56-b817-a13c-5faa-9774-b6f2-6e28-46ef

I got it from a p7m file.

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Matthew, 9 may 2020 at 15:16 #

6cfe-bb0d-7e53-055d-7441-fa3f-825c-9d2e

Found from an ARG based on an old TV show. It seems that the top is valid Base64 and the footer is also valid. I was able to figure out what the footer said by decoding from B64 to ISO-2022-JP, but for the top it seems to just spit out garbage. Would definitely appreciate some help!

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- Administrator, 10 may 2020 at 00:03 #↑
  
  Hello Matthew,
  Indeed, the bottom string is a Base64 value, but I can’t say the same about the first one. At least (if it is ISO-2022-JP) this is strange to me that a such long string does not have any special characters (like “/” or “+”). Also, the “formatting” is somehow special (I mean, the number of lines, slashes, and characters per line).
  
  The only thing I know for sure is that to complete such challenges you need to be in the loop, since quite often the details are part of the key.
  
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Sandy, 18 may 2020 at 14:48 #

ID: 9f77-73ee-bfef-a7a0-1a7b-e4f4-1935-4599
Hola buenos dias tengo es codificación porque no puedo iniciar sesión en mi cuenta de google muchas gracias esperó su ayuda

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Jack, 19 may 2020 at 21:46 #

ID: ad63-1aae-2ca8-da08-d093-7b11-2604-ca68
My friend sent me this, none of us can solve it.

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Joseph, 23 may 2020 at 01:02 #

It's a code I bought then, I will to make some modifications.

ID: 52c1-345f-1bca-39c9-0d69-ef46-5698-7825

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fabio, 27 may 2020 at 03:15 #

76f9-b061-b828-01db-860d-21d3-d02c-ab3f

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Evan, 28 may 2020 at 11:52 #

I have a code that is like 1,000,000 characters long. The page doesn't respond so I just refresh. I can't try to fix it myself because it just glitches my computer out.

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Martina, 3 june 2020 at 06:32 #

I have just got this file from my spouse files and bc he's been acting unsual latly and this file is in knownen I want to see what it is.

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CR_Banzarey, 5 june 2020 at 12:13 #

Id- a7aa-3f2d-6da3-84f2-e06b-4f9d-7c63-ff54
Please decode the following-
UBREG vfWhtcmSwMVBpATqNI/0ieSjn1zN7RQiP/sECHw6UDQU3UCtwBGpxsW+Kyxagh3kgaJt8zJIkOO8GEKjfODfQ==

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