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Cybersecurity Debasing

In Cybersecurity, we often try to detect sequences of characters or bytes. The formats of our files can vary, and where we might use hex, binary, or Base64. There are many bases we can use, and each is defined by the number of characters they can support:

Base2  [01]
Base3  [123]
Base5  [01234]
Base10 [0123456789]
Base26 [A-Z]
Base32 [A-Z2-7=]
Base45 [0-9A-Z $%*+-./:]
Base58 (bitcoin) [1-9A-HJ-NP-Za-km-z]
Base62…