base58

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Overview

Package base58 provides an API for working with modified base58 and Base58Check encodings.

Modified Base58 Encoding

Standard base58 encoding is similar to standard base64 encoding except, as the name implies, it uses a 58 character alphabet which results in an alphanumeric string and allows some characters which are problematic for humans to be excluded. Due to this, there can be various base58 alphabets.

The modified base58 alphabet used by Bitcoin, and hence this package, omits the 0, O, I, and l characters that look the same in many fonts and are therefore hard to humans to distinguish.

Index

• func Decode(b string) []byte
• func Encode(b []byte) string

Functions

func Decode

func Decode(b string) []byte

Decode decodes a modified base58 string to a byte slice.

func Encode

func Encode(b []byte) string

Encode encodes a byte slice to a modified base58 string.