{"id":6958,"date":"2013-02-08T16:45:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6958"},"modified":"2013-02-08T16:45:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:45:07","slug":"the-base64-encoder-has-a-fixed-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/the-base64-encoder-has-a-fixed-point\/","title":{"rendered":"The Base64 Encoder Has a Fixed Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fmota.eu\/blog\/base64-fixed-point.html\">Francisco Mota<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/compsci\/comments\/18234a\/the_base64_encoder_has_a_fixed_point\/\">Reddit<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/fmota.eu\/blog\/base64-fixed-point.html\"><p>Every time we encode, we get the same string back with a few changes at the end. This isn&rsquo;t on purpose, this is a purely accidental consequence of base64&rsquo;s design. There was never any point where the designer of base64 decided &ldquo;Let there be a long string s that is a prefix to its own representation in base64!&rdquo;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco Mota (via Reddit): Every time we encode, we get the same string back with a few changes at the end. This isn&rsquo;t on purpose, this is a purely accidental consequence of base64&rsquo;s design. There was never any point where the designer of base64 decided &ldquo;Let there be a long string s that is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[322,259],"class_list":["post-6958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-base64","tag-math"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6959,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions\/6959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}