# Copyright (c) 2012 The Bitcoin Core developers # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. ''' Bitcoin base58 encoding and decoding. Based on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1026.0 (public domain) ''' import hashlib # for compatibility with following code... class SHA256: new = hashlib.sha256 if str != bytes: # Python 3.x def ord(c): return c def chr(n): return bytes( (n,) ) __b58chars = '123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz' __b58base = len(__b58chars) b58chars = __b58chars def b58encode(v): """ encode v, which is a string of bytes, to base58. """ long_value = 0 for (i, c) in enumerate(v[::-1]): if isinstance(c, str): c = ord(c) long_value += (256**i) * c result = '' while long_value >= __b58base: div, mod = divmod(long_value, __b58base) result = __b58chars[mod] + result long_value = div result = __b58chars[long_value] + result # Bitcoin does a little leading-zero-compression: # leading 0-bytes in the input become leading-1s nPad = 0 for c in v: if c == 0: nPad += 1 else: break return (__b58chars[0]*nPad) + result def b58decode(v, length = None): """ decode v into a string of len bytes """ long_value = 0 for i, c in enumerate(v[::-1]): pos = __b58chars.find(c) assert pos != -1 long_value += pos * (__b58base**i) result = bytes() while long_value >= 256: div, mod = divmod(long_value, 256) result = chr(mod) + result long_value = div result = chr(long_value) + result nPad = 0 for c in v: if c == __b58chars[0]: nPad += 1 continue break result = bytes(nPad) + result if length is not None and len(result) != length: return None return result def checksum(v): """Return 32-bit checksum based on SHA256""" return SHA256.new(SHA256.new(v).digest()).digest()[0:4] def b58encode_chk(v): """b58encode a string, with 32-bit checksum""" return b58encode(v + checksum(v)) def b58decode_chk(v): """decode a base58 string, check and remove checksum""" result = b58decode(v) if result is None: return None if result[-4:] == checksum(result[:-4]): return result[:-4] else: return None def get_bcaddress_version(strAddress): """ Returns None if strAddress is invalid. Otherwise returns integer version of address. """ addr = b58decode_chk(strAddress) if addr is None or len(addr)!=21: return None version = addr[0] return ord(version) if __name__ == '__main__': # Test case (from http://gitorious.org/bitcoin/python-base58.git) assert get_bcaddress_version('15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC') is 0 _ohai = 'o hai'.encode('ascii') _tmp = b58encode(_ohai) assert _tmp == 'DYB3oMS' assert b58decode(_tmp, 5) == _ohai print("Tests passed")