The term pick up the gauntlet is identified in base64 scheme by the sequence cGljayB1cCB0aGUgZ2F1bnRsZXQ=, while the MD5 signature is equal to 1aa74ee5b6e044afce39d2eda51ffddd. The ASCII encoding of pick up the gauntlet in hexadecimal notation is 7069636b20757020746865206761756e746c6574.