// Copyright (c) 2013-2014 The btcsuite developers // Use of this source code is governed by an ISC // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package base58 import ( "crypto/sha256" "errors" ) // ErrChecksum indicates that the checksum of a check-encoded string does not verify against // the checksum. var ErrChecksum = errors.New("checksum error") // ErrInvalidFormat indicates that the check-encoded string has an invalid format. var ErrInvalidFormat = errors.New("invalid format: version and/or checksum bytes missing") // checksum: first four bytes of sha256^2 func checksum(input []byte) (cksum [4]byte) { h := sha256.Sum256(input) h2 := sha256.Sum256(h[:]) copy(cksum[:], h2[:4]) return } // CheckEncode prepends a version byte and appends a four byte checksum. func CheckEncode(input []byte, version byte) string { b := make([]byte, 0, 1+len(input)+4) b = append(b, version) b = append(b, input[:]...) cksum := checksum(b) b = append(b, cksum[:]...) return Encode(b) } // CheckDecode decodes a string that was encoded with CheckEncode and verifies the checksum. func CheckDecode(input string) (result []byte, version byte, err error) { decoded := Decode(input) if len(decoded) < 5 { return nil, 0, ErrInvalidFormat } version = decoded[0] var cksum [4]byte copy(cksum[:], decoded[len(decoded)-4:]) if checksum(decoded[:len(decoded)-4]) != cksum { return nil, 0, ErrChecksum } payload := decoded[1 : len(decoded)-4] result = append(result, payload...) return }