diff --git a/src/Runner.Common/HostContext.cs b/src/Runner.Common/HostContext.cs
index 8cb8d0103..1a30ac0bd 100644
--- a/src/Runner.Common/HostContext.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Common/HostContext.cs
@@ -84,9 +84,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
             this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.Base64StringEscape);
             this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.Base64StringEscapeShift1);
             this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.Base64StringEscapeShift2);
-            this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.Base64StringEscapeShift3);
-            this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.Base64StringEscapeShift4);
-            this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.Base64StringEscapeShift5);
             this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.ExpressionStringEscape);
             this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.JsonStringEscape);
             this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.UriDataEscape);
diff --git a/src/Sdk/DTLogging/Logging/ValueEncoders.cs b/src/Sdk/DTLogging/Logging/ValueEncoders.cs
index 2e9b04145..52aed6975 100644
--- a/src/Sdk/DTLogging/Logging/ValueEncoders.cs
+++ b/src/Sdk/DTLogging/Logging/ValueEncoders.cs
@@ -17,10 +17,16 @@ namespace GitHub.DistributedTask.Logging
             return Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(value));
         }
 
-        // Base64 is 6 bytes -> char
+        // Base64 is 6 bits -> char
+        // A byte is 8 bits
         // When end user doing somthing like base64(user:password)
         // The length of the leading content will cause different base64 encoding result on the password
-        // So we add base64(value - 1/2/3/4/5 bytes) as secret as well.
+        // So we add base64(value shifted 1 and two bytes) as secret as well. 
+        //    B1         B2      B3                    B4      B5     B6     B7
+        // 000000|00 0000|0000 00|000000|            000000|00 0000|0000 00|000000| 
+        //  Char1  Char2    Char3   Char4  
+        // See the above, the first byte has a character beginning at index 0, the second byte has a character beginning at index 4, the third byte has a character beginning at index 2 and then the pattern repeats
+        // We register byte offsets for all these possible values
         public static String Base64StringEscapeShift1(String value)
         {
             return Base64StringEscapeShift(value, 1);
@@ -31,21 +37,6 @@ namespace GitHub.DistributedTask.Logging
             return Base64StringEscapeShift(value, 2);
         }
 
-        public static String Base64StringEscapeShift3(String value)
-        {
-            return Base64StringEscapeShift(value, 3);
-        }
-
-        public static String Base64StringEscapeShift4(String value)
-        {
-            return Base64StringEscapeShift(value, 4);
-        }
-
-        public static String Base64StringEscapeShift5(String value)
-        {
-            return Base64StringEscapeShift(value, 5);
-        }
-
         public static String ExpressionStringEscape(String value)
         {
             return Expressions.ExpressionUtil.StringEscape(value);