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public final class Base58

  1. Object
  2. Base58
Base58 encoding with the Bitcoin alphabet. Each leading zero byte is written as a leading 1 and vice versa. The conversion works on an int array of limbs, so it is quadratic in the length but has no big-number allocation.

Methods

public static String encode(byte[] input)Encodes bytes as Base58 text.
public static byte[] decode(String input)Decodes Base58 text.

Inherited methods

From Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait, clone, finalize

Method details

encode

public static String encode(byte[] input)
Encodes bytes as Base58 text.

Parameters

input byte[]
the bytes to encode

Returns

the Base58 string; empty input gives an empty string

decode

public static byte[] decode(String input)
Decodes Base58 text.

Parameters

input String
the Base58 string

Returns

the decoded bytes

Throws

IllegalArgumentException
if the text holds a character outside the alphabet