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There are some serious misunderstandings about encryption in this article. Base64 encoding is mentioned as encryption. Auch! Beware.

Base64 encoding is nothing close to encryption.

base64 *is* encryption, just like rot13. The fact that they are complete rubbish from a security perspective doesn't mean they aren't encryption.

The definition of encryption requires that only those who have the key can decode the message. Base64 is an encoding, not an encryption.

On the other hand, the method by which Roshan employs the encoding could be considered an encryption if the method of encoding were considered the key, but I think thats kind of a stretch.

http://ostermiller.org/utils/Base64.html

come on base64 is a encryption i agree that they are not much secure but they are encryption and the part of cryptograpthy

Wow! I think this might really revolutionize cryptography! NOT! So basically, he's telling us to stop using the "insecure" md5() and sha1() functions for the better alternative of base64_encode?