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Practically it's easy too. Here's a piece of pseudocode I just wrote:

   chunkOffset = byteIndex/3*4
   base64decode(base64data[chunkOffset:chunkOffset+4])[byteIndex%3]
This gets you the byte located at an arbitrary index of the original buffer while operating on the base64 data.



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