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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's not the base64 that's important, it's the structure. You can pick 
whatever encoding you like, base64 is just very common as a relatively 
dense but still text-safe one.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:06:25AM -0500, tiger12506 wrote:
> Ok. I see. Sorry for the noise.
> 
> 
> Not sure how storing base64 would help.
> 
> >Namely file size savings and sanity. Instead of all those ridiculous X
> >number of hex bytes on each line split with spaces, you have a single
> >quoted entry that's a base64ed.
> >And you can actually manually edit that, god forbid someone wants to
> >do that then.
> 
> 
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