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Originally Posted by Inverness
Well, I've never used it so I wouldn't know. The only time I've ever stored something offline I used an md5 hash.
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Basically all base64 encoding does is turn characters into a simple representable form. Encryption is scrambling the data so that only the person holding the encryption password/details can later decipher it, which is what my encryption example does; it takes the input key, scrambles the data using it, and returns the scrambled result. If you try to decrypt the scrambled data using any different key, it won't work and will just return garbage.