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Some encodings (the original version of BinHex and the recommended encoding for [[CipherSaber]]) use four bits instead of six, mapping all possible sequences of 4 bits onto the 16 standard [[hexadecimal]] digits.
Using 4 bits per encoded character leads to a 50% longer output than base64, but simplifies encoding and decoding -- expanding each byte in the source independently to two encoded bytes is simpler than base64's expanding 3 source bytes to 4 encoded bytes.
==Examples==
* [http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/ Online Char (ASCII), HEX, Binary, Base64, etc... Binary Encoder/Decoder with MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA1+2, etc. hashing algorithms]
[[Category:Binary-to-text encoding formats|*]]
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