# libzbase32 libzbase32 is a `no_std` compatible crate that supports encoding and decoding data in the z-base-32 format, as specified [here](https://philzimmermann.com/docs/human-oriented-base-32-encoding.txt). Z-base-32 is intended to be easier for a human to work with than regular Base32 specified by [RFC 4658](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4648). Some of the key differences: * Z-base-32 a different alphabet ("ybndrfg8ejkmcpqxot1uwisza345h769") which consists of all lower-case letters (this library will accept lower-case or uppercase letters when decoding). The alphabet was chosen to make easier to use character appear more frequently in the output. * Z-base-32 that the parties encoding and decoding z-base-32 values have some mechanism to agree on the length of the data. z-base-32 never includes padding characters (eg: "=") in order to keep the representation more compact. * With Z-base-32, data lengths are specified in bits. This allows for more compact encodings. For example, in z-base-32, a 5 bit value can be encoded into a single character; while base32 would produce an 8 character encoded value (of which 6 characters are padding bytes). ## Documentation Modules documentation is available [here](https://docs.rs/libzbase32). ## License This project is licensed under either of * Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or ) * MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or ) at your option.