Is base 64 part of cryptography?

Is Base 64 开发者_运维百科part of cryptography. Does Base 64 provides any security? Does Base 64 encrypt and decrypt data??

No.

Well, to be really very pedantic, if you are trying to hide content from a complete-computer novice who doesn't really want the content very much: sure, it's plenty good. It's a bit better than the Caesar Cipher.

No. Base64 is an encoding. It only translate characters to another format.

From Wikipedia:

Base64 is a group of similar encoding schemes that represent binary data in an ASCII string format by translating it into a radix-64 representation.

Base64 is simply a method of encoding data, nothing else. I suggest you read this wikipedia article on Base64 encoding.

No, it isn't.

Base 64 is an encoding scheme.

Encoding binary files in base64 was/is a way to send files over email by encoding the binary as textual information.

From wikipedia:

Base64 encoding schemes are commonly used when there is a need to encode binary data that needs be stored and transferred over media that are designed to deal with textual data.