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Hashing vs Encryption vs Encoding: What's the Difference?

Encoding is reversible without a key, encryption is reversible with a key, hashing is one-way. The exact differences and when to use each.

How Base64 encoding works, when to use it, and what it costs: a 33% size overhead, no security, and the URL-safe variant most APIs expect.