Along with the proliferation of personal computers, the circle of people who are concerned with maintaining the secrecy of private information is also expanding. We can talk about both your personal information and the information of other people who trust information about themselves, for example, Internet services. Therefore, people who are very far from the James Bond profession have to deal with the coding and decoding of texts more and more often.
Instructions
Step 1
If the string is encrypted using the PHP base64_encode function, then use the base64_decode function for decoding. It is this pair of built-in functions that is most often used for storing and verifying passwords and other private data in web programming. To decrypt the text, you do not need to be able to program and be able to run php scripts, use any online service designed for this purpose. For example, enter the encrypted string in the text box at https://tools4noobs.com/online_php_functions/base64_decode and click the button labeled Base 64 decode below it. The decryption will appear immediately, without sending data to the server.
Step 2
You can try to apply any of the specialized decoder programs to a string encoded in an unknown way. The most famous application of this type among Russian-speaking computer users continues to be the simple and free Stirlitz program. It can be easily found and downloaded on the network, and this decoder does not require installation - the program can be launched by double-clicking immediately after saving it to a computer. "Stirlitz" will try to decode the text you entered using the most common encryption algorithms - base64, binhex, uuencode, xxencode, BtoA.
Step 3
Sometimes the text does not need to be decoded at all, even if it looks like an unreadable set of characters. It may have just been typed using a different character encoding table. To bring the display of such text to its normal form, it is enough to change the encoding of the page - such a function is available in any modern browser or email program. The program "Stirlitz" described in the previous step is also able to do this.
