secret decoder ring

[John Denker <jsd@AV8N.COM>]

Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> You're trying out your Enigma machine?

It didn't look like very enigmatic to me.  It looked more like
base64 encoding.

Constructive suggestions:
  1) You can get a tool for encoding and decoding base64 at
     http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/
  2) You can get a tool for encoding and decoding quoted-printable
     (i.e. that horrible =3d stuff we sometimes see) at
     http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/qprint/

The price is right.  The unix versions work fine.  Windoze
versions are also offered but I haven't evaluated them.

Here is some text for you to practice on:  text with lots of
funny characters, encoded as quoted-printable then superencoded
as base64:

QW5kcj1FOSBNYXJpZSBBbXA9RThyZQ0KDQpBbmRlcnMgSm9uYXMgPUM1bmdzdHI9RjZtPTIw
DQoNCkpvaGFubmVzIE5pY29sYXVzIEJyPUY4bnN0ZWQ9MjANCg0KTD1GM3JhbmQgdm9uIEU9
RjZ0dj1GNnMNCg0KR3VpbGxhdW1lIGRlIEwnSD1GNHBpdGFsDQoNClRoZW9kb3JlIHZvbiBL
PUUxcm09RTFuDQoNCko9RjN6c2VmIEs9RkNyc2NoPUUxaw0KDQpLYXJsIEdyPUU0ZmZlDQoN
Cj1FMCBsYSBtb2RlIEZyYW49RTdhaXNlDQoNClJ1PURGbGFuZA0KDQogYSA9RDcgYiA9M0Qg
YyA9RjcgZA0KDQpUaGlzIGlzIGEgc29tZXdoYXQgbG9uZyBsaW5lIGVuY29kZWQgPQ0KYXMg
dHdvIHNob3J0ZXIgbGluZXMuDQo=

It's better to light a candle than to curse the damn darkness.