com.concordium.sdk.transactions

Class Base58

java.lang.Object

com.concordium.sdk.transactions.Base58

public class Base58
extends Object

Base58 is a way to encode Bitcoin addresses (or arbitrary data) as alphanumeric strings.

Note that this is not the same base58 as used by Flickr, which you may find referenced around the Internet.

Satoshi explains: why base-58 instead of standard base-64 encoding?

• Don't want 0OIl characters that look the same in some fonts and could be used to create visually identical looking account numbers.
• A string with non-alphanumeric characters is not as easily accepted as an account number.
• E-mail usually won't line-break if there's no punctuation to break at.
• Doubleclicking selects the whole number as one word if it's all alphanumeric.

However, note that the encoding/decoding runs in O(n²) time, so it is not useful for large data.

The basic idea of the encoding is to treat the data bytes as a large number represented using base-256 digits, convert the number to be represented using base-58 digits, preserve the exact number of leading zeros (which are otherwise lost during the mathematical operations on the numbers), and finally represent the resulting base-58 digits as alphanumeric ASCII characters.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Base58()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static byte[]	decodeChecked(int version, String input)
static String	encodeChecked(int version, byte[] payload) Encodes the given version and bytes as a base58 string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Base58

public Base58()

Method Detail

encodeChecked

public static String encodeChecked(int version,
                                   byte[] payload)

Encodes the given version and bytes as a base58 string. A checksum is appended.

Parameters:

version - the version to encode

payload - the bytes to encode, e.g. pubkey hash

Returns:

the base58-encoded string

decodeChecked

public static byte[] decodeChecked(int version,
                                   String input)