Ask HN: What is this long Get In Touch string at the end of Balanced job post?

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In Newest, Balanced has:

"Get in touch: aXdhbnR0b21ha2VhZGlmZmVyZW5jZStobkBiYWxhbmNlZHBheW1lbnRzLmNvbQ=="

Is this some sort of known encryption of their email? Or I guess part of the challenge is to decrypt this?

Are you a developer?

Any good developer should recognize that encoding. :-)

For some reason your comment made me realize what encoding it was. I don't know why, hahah.

Yeah I'm a developer. I don't want to apply to the, but I'm really curious. Or rather, pretty angry at my self that I don't get it haha. Still can't figure it out :( It's not UTF-8, ASCII nor md5/SHA1 or any hex. Am I missing something?

not many encodings have a preference of ending with ==

Figured it out :) Next task: saiko's encryption :p

ahh don't try hahah, it's not an encryption it's just some identifier for some other website awhile back that was doing some sort of HN integration xD

it's base64 encoding.

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