What Base64 Actually Does to Your Bytes (and Why It's Not Encryption)

<p>If you've run Kubernetes for more than a day, you've seen this:<br /> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight yaml"><code><span

<p>You're integrating an API and you get back a token that starts with <code>eyJ</code>. You paste it somewhere and suddenly you can read your user's email address, their user ID,

<p>If you've ever worked with auth, you've seen a JWT — a long string like <code>eyJhbGci...</code> split into three parts by dots. It looks cryptic, but it's surprisingly simple