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But base64 encoding is pretty easy to identify, as are most imaginable encoding schemes. Simply disallow them.

If the encoding schemes become so obscure as to not be recognizable, then the problem is still effectively solved.

How about 256 words (or sets of words) representing each byte value? It's less dense by a factor of ~5, but it would work, be easy to decode, and be very difficult to identify, especially if you used sets of words. You could even cleverly generate in a way that is grammatically correct.

You're playing cat and mouse then, and you'll never win. If base64 was banned, I'd base26 encode it (i.e. letters of the alphabet), then use the NATO phonetic alphabet "alpha bravo charlie". The message size would be massive, but the message would get through.

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