package main import ( "bytes" "math/big" ) var b58Alphabet = []byte("123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz") // Base58Encode encodes a byte array to Base58 func Base58Encode(input []byte) []byte { var result []byte x := big.NewInt(0).SetBytes(input) base := big.NewInt(int64(len(b58Alphabet))) zero := big.NewInt(0) mod := &big.Int{} for x.Cmp(zero) != 0 { x.DivMod(x, base, mod) result = append(result, b58Alphabet[mod.Int64()]) } // https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding#Version_bytes if input[0] == 0x00 { result = append(result, b58Alphabet[0]) } ReverseBytes(result) return result } // Base58Decode decodes Base58-encoded data func Base58Decode(input []byte) []byte { result := big.NewInt(0) for _, b := range input { charIndex := bytes.IndexByte(b58Alphabet, b) result.Mul(result, big.NewInt(58)) result.Add(result, big.NewInt(int64(charIndex))) } decoded := result.Bytes() if input[0] == b58Alphabet[0] { decoded = append([]byte{0x00}, decoded...) } return decoded }