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Re:TIL that You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, ... by thibaultamartin on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:12PM (#44803637)
That's right, I've added an errata to clarify. Thanks for the heads up!
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Re:TIL that You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, ... by DPDmancul on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:20AM (#44808754)
You can increase the guess accuracy a little by looking for the "tLS" characters , skipping the first 3 chars. Also this is a mnemonic about TLS and identifies all strings starting with 5 dashes, excluding so most of yaml documents
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