And in fact, Tv has already done that. You want https://github.com/tv42/zbase32.
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 3:01 AM, roger peppe <rogpe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 December 2017 at 01:23, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg <j...@agilebits.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Dec 12, 2017, at 9:00 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: >>> >>>> DecodedLen is supposed to be applied to the length of the encoded >>>> data. RFC 4648 says that the encoded data must be padded to be a >>>> multiple of 8 bytes. >>> >>> Yet encoding/hash32 defines a NoPadding constant, the code is filled >>> with tests for whether the padding has been set to NoPadding, and the >>> package >>> docs make reference to setting things with NoPadding. >> >> Yes. But even with the no padding case, it is impossible to have an >> encoded length of a single byte (I tried to say that in a bit of the >> message that you didn't quote). And I hope we can all agree that >> `DecodedLen` returns the correct value when called with an argument of >> 2 when `padChar == NoPadding`. So we are only talking about the value >> 1, which I assert is impossible in a valid base32 encoded string with >> no padding. > > Looking at http://philzimmermann.com/docs/human-oriented-base-32-encoding.txt, > it seems that zbase32 allows the encoder and decoder to agree on the > number of bits transmitted, so if you're encoding 5 bits or less, you > can use a single encoded character. > > ISTM that this difference is probably justification enough to make a > new zbase32 package rather than using encoding/base32 directly. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
