30 lines
1.2 KiB
Go
30 lines
1.2 KiB
Go
// Copyright (c) 2014 The btcsuite developers
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// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
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// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
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/*
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Package base58 provides an API for working with modified base58 and Base58Check
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encodings.
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Modified Base58 Encoding
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Standard base58 encoding is similar to standard base64 encoding except, as the
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name implies, it uses a 58 character alphabet which results in an alphanumeric
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string and allows some characters which are problematic for humans to be
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excluded. Due to this, there can be various base58 alphabets.
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The modified base58 alphabet used by Bitcoin, and hence this package, omits the
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0, O, I, and l characters that look the same in many fonts and are therefore
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hard to humans to distinguish.
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Base58Check Encoding Scheme
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The Base58Check encoding scheme is primarily used for Bitcoin addresses at the
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time of this writing, however it can be used to generically encode arbitrary
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byte arrays into human-readable strings along with a version byte that can be
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used to differentiate the same payload. For Bitcoin addresses, the extra
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version is used to differentiate the network of otherwise identical public keys
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which helps prevent using an address intended for one network on another.
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*/
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package base58
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