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		athorax 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and pr... Base64 encoded yaml files will also be LS-prefixed if they have the document marker (---)

thibaultamartin 6 months ago [–]

That's right, I've added an errata to clarify. Thanks for the heads up!

DPDmancul 6 months ago | [–]

You can increase the guess accuracy a little by looking for the "tLS" characters , skipping the first 3 chars. Also this is a mnemonic about TLS and identifies all strings starting with 5 dashes, excluding so most of yaml documents

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