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  Post  Post subject: Openssl: Commandline base64 string encoding  |  Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:50 am

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Openssl: Commandline base64 string encoding

To encode a string into base64, echo and openssl system utilities can be used:
Code:
# echo -n 'somepassword' | openssl enc -base64
c29tZXBhc3N3b3Jk


The -n switch to echo is used to supress echoing a new line character. For example, below is a difference between base64 encoded string that doesn't contain newline and on that does:
Code:
# echo -n 'somepassword' | openssl enc -base64
c29tZXBhc3N3b3Jk
# echo 'somepassword' | openssl enc -base64
c29tZXBhc3N3b3JkCg==



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Post  Post subject: Re: Openssl: Commandline base64 string encoding  |  Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:07 am
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Update: also the "base64" utility can be used:
Code:
#echo 'somepassword' | base64
c29tZXBhc3N3b3JkCg==


This utility needs to be installed separately on FreeBSD/Debian.

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