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There are two layers to that encoding. When you see a random string of characters and numbers ending with one or two equals signs, think of base64. Then when you see something that seems like word groups with spaces, think of rot* (* = 13 being the most common version) encoding.


Thank you. I solved it. My decoding sequence was wrong before (I was trying to decode in reverse), but your pointers helped me.




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