diff --git a/src/Runner.Common/HostContext.cs b/src/Runner.Common/HostContext.cs
index 48a785bd574..f110bbd40a1 100644
--- a/src/Runner.Common/HostContext.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Common/HostContext.cs
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ public HostContext(string hostType, string logFile = null)
             _loadContext.Unloading += LoadContext_Unloading;
 
             this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.Base64StringEscape);
-            this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.Base64StringEscapeTrimmed);
             this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.Base64StringEscapeShift1);
             this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.Base64StringEscapeShift2);
             this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.ExpressionStringEscape);
diff --git a/src/Sdk/DTLogging/Logging/ValueEncoders.cs b/src/Sdk/DTLogging/Logging/ValueEncoders.cs
index 52f46083379..77478799178 100644
--- a/src/Sdk/DTLogging/Logging/ValueEncoders.cs
+++ b/src/Sdk/DTLogging/Logging/ValueEncoders.cs
@@ -16,11 +16,6 @@ public static String Base64StringEscape(String value)
         {
             return Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(value));
         }
-        
-        public static String Base64StringEscapeTrimmed(String value)
-        {
-            return TrimBase64End(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(value)));
-        }
 
         // Base64 is 6 bits -> char
         // A byte is 8 bits
@@ -72,15 +67,15 @@ private static string Base64StringEscapeShift(String value, int shift)
             {
                 var shiftArray = new byte[bytes.Length - shift];
                 Array.Copy(bytes, shift, shiftArray, 0, bytes.Length - shift);
-                return TrimBase64End(Convert.ToBase64String(shiftArray));
+                return Convert.ToBase64String(shiftArray);
             }
             else
             {
-                return TrimBase64End(Convert.ToBase64String(bytes));
+                return Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);
             }
         }
 
-        public static String UriDataEscape(
+        private static String UriDataEscape(
             String value,
             Int32 maxSegmentSize)
         {
@@ -108,26 +103,5 @@ public static String UriDataEscape(
 
             return result.ToString();
         }
-
-        private static String TrimBase64End(String value)
-        {
-            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
-            {
-                return String.Empty;
-            }
-            if (value.EndsWith('='))
-            {
-                var trimmed = value.TrimEnd('=');
-                if (trimmed.Length > 1)
-                {
-                    // If a base64 string ends in '=' it indicates that the base 64 character is only using 2 or 4 of the six bytes and will change if another character is added
-                    // For example 'ab' is 'YWI=' in base 64
-                    // 'abc' is 'YWJj'
-                    // We need to detect YW, not YWI so we trim the last character ('I')
-                    return trimmed.Substring(0, trimmed.Length - 1);
-                }
-            }
-            return value;
-        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Test/L0/HostContextL0.cs b/src/Test/L0/HostContextL0.cs
index ce608781834..4b5bbf6d172 100644
--- a/src/Test/L0/HostContextL0.cs
+++ b/src/Test/L0/HostContextL0.cs
@@ -93,21 +93,12 @@ public void DefaultSecretMaskers()
                 Assert.Equal("123***123", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets("123Pass%20word%20123%21123"));
                 Assert.Equal("123***123", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets("123Pass<word>123!123"));
                 Assert.Equal("123***123", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets("123Pass''word''123!123"));
-                Assert.Equal("OlBh***Q==", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($":Password123!"))));
-                Assert.Equal("YTpQ***E=", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"a:Password123!"))));
+                Assert.Equal("OlBh***", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($":Password123!"))));
+                Assert.Equal("YTpQ***", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"a:Password123!"))));
                 Assert.Equal("YWI6***", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"ab:Password123!"))));
-                Assert.Equal("YWJjOlBh***Q==", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"abc:Password123!"))));
-                Assert.Equal("YWJjZDpQ***E=", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"abcd:Password123!"))));
+                Assert.Equal("YWJjOlBh***", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"abc:Password123!"))));
+                Assert.Equal("YWJjZDpQ***", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"abcd:Password123!"))));
                 Assert.Equal("YWJjZGU6***", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"abcde:Password123!"))));
-                Assert.Equal("***Og==", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"Password123!:"))));
-                Assert.Equal("***OmE=", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"Password123!:a"))));
-                Assert.Equal("***OmFi", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"Password123!:ab"))));
-                Assert.Equal("***OmFiYw==", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"Password123!:abc"))));
-                Assert.Equal("***OmFiY2Q=", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"Password123!:abcd"))));
-                Assert.Equal("***OmFiY2Rl", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"Password123!:abcde"))));
-                Assert.Equal("OlBh***To=", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($":Password123!:"))));
-                Assert.Equal("YTpQ***E6YQ==", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"a:Password123!:a"))));
-                Assert.Equal("YWJjOlBh***Tph", _hc.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"abc:Password123!:a"))));
             }
             finally
             {