ASCII armor: send encrypted data in plain text

27 · John Cook · Dec. 11, 2023, 4:39 p.m.
Summary
GNU ASCII armor is a way to encode binary data as text and decode the text back into binary. It could be used with any binary data, but most often it is used with cryptographic data: public keys, encrypted messages, etc. Secure communication over an insecure channel When people ask whether some medium “supports encryption,” […] The post ASCII armor: send encrypted data in plain text first appeared on John D. Cook....