eagain.net/go/bech32 -- Human-friendly encoding for binary data

go get eagain.net/go/bech32

Package bech32 implements the "Bech32" encoding as specified in https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawiki

Note that Bech32 is not RFC 4648/3548, for that see encoding/base32. It is also not z-base-32, for that see github.com/tv42/zbase32. Compared to those, Bech32 adds a tag identifying type of stored data and a checksum. Bech32 was popularized by Bitcoin.

Command line utilities

Included are simple command-line utilities for encoding/decoding data. Example:

$ echo hello, world | bech32-encode greet
greet1dpjkcmr09ss8wmmjd3jq54mcuzl
$ bech32-decode greet1dpjkcmr09ss8wmmjd3jq54mcuzl
hello, world
$ printf '\x01binary!!!1\x00' | bech32-encode hckrspk
hckrspk1q93xjmnpwfujzgfpxyqqs8a2ax
$ bech32-decode hckrspk1q93xjmnpwfujzgfpxyqqs8a2ax | hexdump -C
00000000  01 62 69 6e 61 72 79 21  21 21 31 00              |.binary!!!1.|
0000000c

Origins

At the beginning of this project, the library was copied from filippo.io/age/internal/bech32 as of version v1.0.0-beta6, in order to make it available outside of the age project. For more information on age, see https://age-encryption.org/

It seems that this code was an improved and much cleaned up version of github.com/btcsuite/btcutil/bech32, that had been internally maintained at Google until it was open sourced as part of age.