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Common Base64 use cases

HTTP Basic Authusername:password → Base64
Data URIsdata:image/png;base64,...
JWT payloadsheader.payload.signature
API keysoften Base64-encoded secrets
Email (MIME)attachments encoded in Base64
Config filesk8s secrets, .env values