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Web Application Security

Dr. Raj K Jaiswal


Encoding
▪ The process of conversion of data from one form to
another form is known as Encoding.
▪ It is used to transform the data so that data can be
supported and used by different systems.
▪ Encoding in Electronics: In electronics, encoding
refers to converting analog signals to digital signals.
▪ Encoding in Computing: In computing, encoding is
a process of converting data to an equivalent cipher
by applying specific code, letters, and numbers to
the data.
Type of Encoding Technique
• Character Encoding
• Image & Audio and Video Encoding

Character Encoding:
▪ It encodes characters into bytes.
▪ It informs the computers how to interpret the zero and
ones into real characters, numbers, and symbols.
▪ The computer understands only binary data; hence it is
required to convert these characters into numeric
codes.
▪ To achieve this, each character is converted into binary
code, and for this, text documents are saved with
encoding types.
▪ It can be done by pairing numbers with characters.
Type of Encoding Technique
• There are different types of Character Encoding
techniques, which are given below:
• HTML Encoding
• URL Encoding
• Unicode Encoding
• Base64 Encoding
• Hex Encoding
• ASCII Encoding
• HTML Encoding
• HTML encoding is used to display an HTML page in a
proper format. With encoding, a web browser gets to
know that which character set to be used.
• In HTML, there are various characters used in HTML
Markup such as <, >. To encode these characters as
content, we need to use an encoding.
Type of Encoding Technique
• URL Encoding
• URL (Uniform resource locator) Encoding is used to convert
characters in such a format that they can be transmitted over
the internet.

• It is also known as percent-encoding.

• The URL Encoding is performed to send the URL to the


internet using the ASCII character-set.

• Non-ASCII characters are replaced with a %, followed by the


hexadecimal digits.
Type of Encoding Technique
• UNICODE Encoding
• Unicode is an encoding standard for a universal character set.
• Unicode is a list of characters with unique decimal numbers (code
points). A = 65, B = 66, C = 67, ....
• This list of decimal numbers represent the string "hello": 104 101
108 108 111
• It allows encoding, represent, and handle the text represented in
most of the languages or writing systems that are available
worldwide.
• It provides a code point or number for each character in every
supported language.
• It can represent approximately all the possible characters possible
in all the languages.
• A particular sequence of bits is known as a coding unit.
• A UNICODE standard can use 8, 16, or 32 bits to represent the
characters.
• The Unicode standard defines Unicode Transformation Format
(UTF) to encode the code points.
• UNICODE Encoding standard has the following UTF schemes:
• UTF-8 Encoding
• The UTF8 is defined by the UNICODE standard, which is
variable-width character encoding used in Electronics
Communication.
• UTF-8 is capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid character
code points in Unicode using one to four one-byte (8-bit)
code units.
• UTF-16 Encoding
UTF16 Encoding represents a character's code points
using one of two 16-bits integers.
• UTF-32 Encoding
UTF32 Encoding represents each code point as 32-bit
integers.
• Base64 Encoding
• Base64 Encoding is used to encode binary data into
equivalent ASCII Characters.
• The Base64 encoding is used in the Mail system, as mail
systems such as SMTP can't work with binary data because
they accept ASCII textual data only.
• It is also used in simple HTTP authentication to encode the
credentials.
• Moreover, it is also used to transfer the binary data into
cookies and other parameters to make data unreadable to
prevent tampering.
• If an image or another file is transferred without Base64
encoding, it will get corrupted as the mail system is not
able to deal with binary data.
• Base64 represents the data into blocks of 3 bytes, where
each byte contains 8 bits; hence it represents 24 bits.
• These 24 bits are divided into four groups of 6 bits. Each of
these groups or chunks are converted into equivalent
Base64 value.
• ASCII Encoding
• American Standard Code for Information
Interchange (ASCII) is a type of character-encoding. It was
the first character encoding standard released in the year
1963.
• The ASCII code is used to represent English characters as
numbers, where each letter is assigned with a number
from 0 to 127.
• Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on
ASCII, though they support many additional characters. It is
a single byte encoding only using the bottom 7 bits.
• In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special
character is represented with a 7-bit binary number.
• Each character of the keyboard has an equivalent ASCII
value.

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