How to simply encode and decode a string variable with javascript.

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Published on 2010-04-19T16:10:29Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 16:13 UTC
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I need to simply encode a string variable (my api key) so that is not easily readable by human eyes, I need it to easily decode back to exactly the same initial string. What is the standard practical and fast (less computing on the user side) way to do this?

Many thanks in advance!

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