ASCII Armor - Text encoding format

ASCII Armor is a text encoding format created in 2007.

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OpenPGP provides the service of converting the raw 8-bit binary octet stream to a stream of printable ASCII characters, called Radix-64 encoding or ASCII Armor.

Tags: textEncodingFormat
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for ASCII Armor
See also: (1 related languages) Base64
Read more about ASCII Armor on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

  -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
  Version: OpenPrivacy 0.99
  
  yDgBO22WxBHv7O8X7O/jygAEzol56iUKiXmV+XmpCtmpqQUKiQrFqclFqUDBovzS
  vBSFjNSiVHsuAA==
  =njUN
  -----END PGP MESSAGE-----