The term tar-and-feather is identified in base64 scheme by the sequence dGFyLWFuZC1mZWF0aGVy, while the MD5 signature is equal to 0cf277d294fb4a46dc012cdcb33bbbdb. The ASCII encoding of tar-and-feather in hexadecimal notation is 7461722d616e642d66656174686572.