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Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition
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Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition

by Oleg Skulkin, Donnie Tindall, Rohit Tamma
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
328 pages
8h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Decoding Tango messages

Base64 is an encoding scheme that is commonly used for data transport; it is not considered encryption because it has a known method for decoding, and does not require a unique key to decode the data. Base64 contains ASCII-printable characters, but the underlying data is binary (which will make our output somewhat messy!). An example from the payload column in the messages table of tc.db looks like this:

EhZtQzVtUFVQWmgxWnNRUDJ6aE44cy1nGAAiQldlbGNvbWUgdG8gVGFuZ28hIEhlcmUncyBob3cgdG8gY29ubmVjdCwgZ2V0IHNvY2lhbCwgYW5kIGhhdmUgZnVuIYABAKoBOwoFVGFuZ28SABoWbUM1bVBVUFpoMVpzUVAyemhOOHMtZyILCgcKABIBMRoAEgAqADD///////////8BsAHYioX1rym4AYKAgAjAAQHQAQDoAdC40ELIAgTQAgDqAgc4MDgwODg5yAMA2AMA2AXTHw==

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