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Andrew Poelstra 9df59639ce
Merge rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin#2621: Release tracking PR: `hashes v0.14.0` 
0ca5a43ce5 hashes: Bump version to v0.14.0 (Tobin C. Harding)

Pull request description:

  In preparation for release add a changlelog entry and bump the version.

  Note the hashes 0.13.0 dependency stays in the dependency graph because of secp, we can update secp after releasing `hashes` then update the secp dependency in `rust-bitcoin` thereby removing the `hashes v0.13.0` dependency - phew.

  Note we are right to release this immediately, the two open PRs (#2337 and #2541) that touch `hashes` only add a clippy attribute so can safely be ignored.

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contrib Add a new base58 crate 2024-02-23 12:54:24 +11:00
src Hide base58::Error internals 2024-03-21 06:22:51 +11:00
CHANGELOG.md base58: Add changelog 2024-03-25 06:41:38 +11:00
Cargo.toml Merge rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin#2621: Release tracking PR: `hashes v0.14.0` 2024-03-25 22:23:30 +00:00
README.md base58: Re-name crate to base58ck 2024-03-19 09:00:46 +11:00

README.md

Bitcoin base58 encoding

This crate provides encoding and decoding of base58 strings as defined by the Bitcoin ecosystem including the checksum.

There are a bunch of crates on crates.io that implement base58 encoding and decoding. The more obviously named ones differ from this crate because:

  1. bitcoin-base58 is transpiled from the C++ code in Bitcoin Core as part of a large long-term transpilation project, whereas this crate is a pure Rust implementation intended to be production-ready and to provide an Rust-idiomatic API.

  2. base58 implements parsing but does not validate checksums (see base58check). It may be appropriate in cases where performance is more important than safety. Appears unmaintained.

  3. base58check Adds checksum to the base58 crate and depends on sha2 for hashing. Appears unmaintained.

This crate uses bitcoin_hashes when hashing to calculate the checksum.

Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV)

This library should always compile with any combination of features on Rust 1.56.1.

Licensing

The code in this project is licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license. We use the SPDX license list and SPDX IDs.