Encryption, Encoding And Hashing Explained
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
Encoding is a process of transforming the data into different parameters to enhance its compatibility, usefulness, and to transmit it through various systems and applications.
Therefore, the main purpose of encoding is not security for data but rather compatibility that makes data readable and intelligible to as many computer systems as possible.
Typically, encoding schemes are standard and are understood by most systems, hence enabling one system to transfer data to another without interference.
Other primitive methods of encoding include Base64, ASCII, and Unicode. For instance, Base64 is widely used for converting binary data, namely files or images, into ASCII text for secure transfer through textual protocols like e-mail or HTTP.