Encodings
z-base-32
Base32 ordered so the common characters are the easy ones to read and say. Lightning and Mnet
Encoding / Base32
z-base-32
Base32 ordered so you can read it out loud.
- Overhead
- +60% on random bytes
- Padding
- none
- Standard
- Zooko O'Whielacronx, human-oriented base-32 encoding (2002)
- Used by
- Lightning, Mnet
family 4 / 20
Sample
- Out
- pb1sa5dxrb5s6huccooo
- Back
- "hello world!"
ybndrfg8ejkmcpqxot1uwisza345h769
Access
- Import
import { zbase32 } from "@agntn/encodings/base32" - CLI
encodings encode z-base-32 'hello world!' - Tryplayground with the sample above
- Kinbase32, base32hex, base32-crockford
Zooko O'Whielacronx reordered the base32 alphabet in 2002. The characters that show up most are the easiest to read, write and say. Lowercase only, no padding. Ever read a key out loud over a call? That's who this is for.
zbase32.encode(new Uint8Array([0xf0, 0xbf, 0xc7])); // "6n9hq"
encode("z-base-32", "hello"); // "pb1sa5dx"
6n9hq is the example from the original paper. Zooko wrote it for Mnet. These days you meet it in Lightning, where node message signatures come out as z-base-32.