The term stephen a. douglas is identified in base64 scheme by the sequence c3RlcGhlbiBhLiBkb3VnbGFz, while the MD5 signature is equal to 9a4a01eabf7b59f8c1bf4a3d4a232097. The ASCII encoding of stephen a. douglas in hexadecimal notation is 7374657068656e20612e20646f75676c6173.