The term step to the fore is identified in base64 scheme by the sequence c3RlcCB0byB0aGUgZm9yZQ==, while the MD5 signature is equal to 5d2c27161328f43c4f7bb0ab58e11c6b. The ASCII encoding of step to the fore in hexadecimal notation is 7374657020746f2074686520666f7265.