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

4 points by nayefc ↗ HN
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?

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redspark
Are you a developer?

Any good developer should recognize that encoding. :-)

saiko-chriskun
For some reason your comment made me realize what encoding it was. I don't know why, hahah.
nayefc
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?
veesahni
not many encodings have a preference of ending with ==
nayefc
Figured it out :) Next task: saiko's encryption :p
saiko-chriskun
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
krapp
it's base64 encoding.