Re:TIL that You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, ...
by mmastrac on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:43PM
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`MII` for RSA private keys.
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Re:TIL that You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, ...
by Muromec on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:00PM
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MII is not RSA, it's an opening header of asn1 structure encoded to DER -- 30 82 0x which is basically "{" when which can be pretty much anything from x509 certificate to private keys fro ECDSA.
Actual RSA oid is somewhere in the middle.
Re:TIL that You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, ...
by mmastrac on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:14PM
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True, but for the most part, RSA keys are the only keys that anyone encounters that start with long SEQUENCEs requiring two-byte lengths.
`eY` could be any JSON, but it's most likely going to be a JWT.
Neither is a perfect signal, but contextually is more likely correct than not.