Is it ok to remove the equal signs from a base64 string?

Question

I have a string that I\'m encoding into base64 to conserve space. Is it a big deal if I remove the equal sign at the end? Would this significantly decrease entropy? What can I d

Answer 1

those are padding and you don't save much by removing them as there are at most two of them, so if you want to save space look else where. and by the reference to entropy are you compressing these base64 strings? if so even if you do remove them, they will not have much of an effect on the compressed size.