The term secretary of defense is identified in base64 scheme by the sequence c2VjcmV0YXJ5IG9mIGRlZmVuc2U=, while the MD5 signature is equal to e858e1af75358810c2afca4160b81aa4. The ASCII encoding of secretary of defense in hexadecimal notation is 736563726574617279206f6620646566656e7365.