Why Kubernetes Secrets are Base64 Encoded
Base64 encoding is not used for security purposes.
Base64 encoding is a method to encode binary data into an ASCII string format.
It is primarily used to ensure data integrity during transmission over media that are designed to deal with text.
Why Base64 is Not for Security
It's important to understand that Base64 encoding is not encryption.
It doesn't provide any real security benefit, as Base64 can be easily decoded.