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// 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 Ciphers 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 Ciphers 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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