bs62 0.1.1

A Base62 encoder / decoder with support for leading zero bytes.

Normally, during the conversion of base10 (decimal) to base62, the input data is interpreted as one large number:

[0x13, 0x37] => 0x1337 => 4919

As leading zeroes do not count to the value of a number (0001337 = 1337), they are ignored while converting the number to base62.

• This is exactly what the [encode_num] function does.
• The [encode_data] keeps these leading zeroes.

This is achieved by prepending a 0x01 byte to the data before encoding, thus creating a number that starts with a 1, then maybe has some zeroes and finally some other digits (0001337 => 10001337 => (No zeroes are removed)).

The leading 0x01 is removed after the data has been decoded from bse62 back to base10: 10001337 => 0001337

Alphabet

0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

This is the same alphabet that CyberChef uses by default: [0-9][A-Z][a-z].

Wikipedia/Base62 suggests another alphabet ([A-Z][a-z][0-9]) but I found that starting with numbers is more natural as base62 is actually a number system like decimal (which is actually base10).

Examples

Convert Data to Base62

This method will prepend 0x01 to the data before encoding it.

let data = vec![0x13, 0x37];
let encoded = bs62::encode_data(&data);

assert_eq!(encoded, "IKN")

Parse Base62 to Data

This method expects a leading 0x01 in the byte array after decoding. It removes the first byte before returning the byte array.

let encoded = "IKN";
let data = bs62::decode_data(&encoded).unwrap();

assert_eq!(data, vec![0x13_u8, 0x37])

Convert a Number to Base62

let num = 1337;
let encoded = bs62::encode_num(&num);

assert_eq!(encoded, "LZ")

Parse Base62 to Number

let num = 1337;
let encoded = bs62::encode_num(&num);

assert_eq!(encoded, "LZ")