HD Moore on Nostr: Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow US-ians. This is an annual reminder that Base64 can ...
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow US-ians. This is an annual reminder that Base64 can decode different input to the same output. "Secrets" decodes from U2VjcmV0cw==, U2VjcmV0cw=, U2VjcmV0cw, U2VjcmV0cx, U2VjcmV0c9, and sometimes U2V|jcm|V0c|9.
Base64 makes a bad hash or lookup key!
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2024-11-28 16:51:20Event JSON
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"pubkey": "3c65f4528f1db02ae90cd1ce3c494daf425c18dc5d3e854fb9bf73a55fe3fcd3",
"created_at": 1732812680,
"kind": 1,
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"proxy",
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"content": "Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow US-ians. This is an annual reminder that Base64 can decode different input to the same output. \"Secrets\" decodes from U2VjcmV0cw==, U2VjcmV0cw=, U2VjcmV0cw, U2VjcmV0cx, U2VjcmV0c9, and sometimes U2V|jcm|V0c|9.\n\nBase64 makes a bad hash or lookup key!",
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}
