JSON Value Encoder

Tool for obfuscating JSON values with base64 encoding. Rather than encoding the whole file, it encodes each individual value, while leaving the keys human-readable.

{"title": "JSON Value Encoder" } gets converted to:

{
  "title": "SlNPTiBWYWx1ZSBFbmNvZGVy",
  "obfuscated": true
}

The converter can also decode similarly-formated values. Although currently set for base64 encoding, it could easily be converted to support other encode/encrypt schemes

Use Case

Why would you want to do this? I developed it for a very particular situation: keeping semi-secret information is a data file in a public-repo Jekyll site. This allows the Jekyll site to read the data in its original JSON structure (e.g. site.data.title) but to keep the data obfuscated in the repo. (The actual use case was information about award-winners yet-to-be announced, but I suppose it could also be useful for things like trivia or quiz answers.)

To decode the information in Jekyll, you'll need a custom plugin. See the jekyll-demo folder in this repo for a sample of how to set that up.