The term crux of the matter is identified in base64 scheme by the sequence Y3J1eCBvZiB0aGUgbWF0dGVy, while the MD5 signature is equal to ea8c2bd3a430e2124fb9ff206d62adc7. The ASCII encoding of crux of the matter in hexadecimal notation is 63727578206f6620746865206d6174746572.