diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index 2b1f3e1106cd..cecc6719828e 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -11813,6 +11813,12 @@
     githubId = 30825096;
     name = "Ning Zhang";
   };
+  oaksoaj = {
+    email = "oaksoaj@riseup.net";
+    name = "Oaksoaj";
+    github = "oaksoaj";
+    githubId = 103952141;
+  };
   obadz = {
     email = "obadz-nixos@obadz.com";
     github = "obadz";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/basez/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/basez/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e7fe906836e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/basez/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl } :
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "basez";
+  version = "1.6.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.quarkline.net/basez/download/basez-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "sha256-Kp+CFIh5HCdj7wEgx1xD3IPdFlZ7fEFvMDMYif1ZiTc=";
+  };
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Base 16/32/64 encode/decode data to standard output";
+    longDescription = ''
+        Encode  data into/decode data from base16, base32, base32hex, base64 or
+        base64url stream per RFC 4648;  MIME  base64  Content-Transfer-Encoding
+        per RFC 2045; or PEM Printable Encoding per RFC 1421.
+    '';
+    homepage = "http://www.quarkline.net/basez/";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.oaksoaj ];
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 1adcf10de7a1..9b520fa7155a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1510,6 +1510,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   balena-cli = callPackage ../tools/admin/balena-cli { };
 
+  basez = callPackage ../tools/misc/basez { };
+
   butler = callPackage ../games/itch/butler.nix {
     inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) Cocoa;
   };