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@OrestH Base64 is a method to encode data, atob is a javascript funcion to decode this format back to a string(assuming its a string)
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@adilson so, it is some sort of simple cryptography?
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@OrestH not exactly, its a way of coding binary data in text, because sometimes you can't just send raw binary data over the network.
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Oh, I get it, @adilson
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@OrestH Yes, its a method, not limited to js.
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