Base64 Encoding

There are two easy ways to base64 encode a string. You can use b64encode:

$ b64encode randomname
begin-base64 644 test
randomstring
cmFuZG9tc3RyaW5n

Or you can use this perl one-liner:

perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("randomstring");'
cmFuZG9tc3RyaW5n

To decode a base64 string, you can use b64decode: