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base32-codecs
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base32-codecs
is a codecs compatible adapter to base32-encode and base32-decode.
const {
base32, // RFC4648, unpadded
base32c, // Crockford
base32h, // RFC4648-HEX, unpadded
base32hp, // RFC4648-HEX, padded
base32p // RFC4648, Padded
} = require('base32-codecs')
for (const codec of [base32, base32c, base32h, base32hp, base32p]) {
codec.encode(
codec.decode(crypto.randomBytes(10))
)
}
FAQs
'codecs' compatible base32-encode and base32-decode adapter.
The npm package base32-codecs receives a total of 80 weekly downloads. As such, base32-codecs popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that base32-codecs demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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